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1802 Barrington's Hist. New S. Wales x. 373 A young ox was missed from the stock~yard at Toongabbe.

1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxvi. 300 The first result we see of a gentleman farming being the increase of the size of his stock-yard.

1869 Bradshaw's Railway Man. 21 xxi. 428 Expended... Union stock yards Chicago..§100,000.

1911 C. E. W. Bean ‘Dreadnought’ of Darling xv. 145 The wind..piled it uselessly, over every fence and stockyard.

1929 K. S. Prichard Coonardoo iv. 51 They wandered from the stock-yards to the shade-miah.

1958 L. Durrell Mountolive viii. 162 The mauve-veiled evening voices of Alexandrians uttering stockyard quotations.

1963 Times 16 Jan. 6/6 Born in the stockyards district (where he still lives) and where as a ‘stockyards cowboy’ he once herded cattle from pen to pen.

1978 D. Greig Daisy v. 54 In Chicago we stayed at the Hotel on Lake Michigan, near the famous Stockyards where, as they used to say, the unfortunate animals went in whole at one end and came out the other processed into fifty different products.