| 单词 | receiving yard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreceiving yard receiving yard n. (a) Australian and New Zealand the enclosure in a stock yard into which mustered sheep or cattle are first driven; (b) U.S. an area of a railway yard into which trains are received. ΚΠ 1848 H. W. Haygarth Recoll. Bush Life 68 A cattle enclosure is usually subdivided into five yards: two of them facing the entrance are large, the three others are smaller; the former are known as ‘receiving’, and the latter as ‘draughting’ yards. 1893 Rep. Court of Appeals Colorado 2 548 The cars were left in the general receiving yard of the railroad. 1923 W. Perry et al. Sheep Farming in N.Z. iii. 16 [The sheep yards] should consist of receiving yards at each end, forcing pen, and drafting race. 1939 Fortune Nov. 50/2 The schedule or ‘manifest’ trains (so called because their composition is known or manifest to the receiving yard before they pull in). 1995 Weekly Times (Ryde, New S. Wales) (Nexis) 4 Oct. Wonga Station is a 39,606 ha property with homestead, four sets of cattle yards, four sets of sheep yards, woolshed, two receiving yards and three-way draft loading facilities. 1999 P. T. Deutermann Train Man (2001) 113 He knew the trains often stopped up here, awaiting switch windows in the receiving yard. < as lemmas |
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