单词	stockyards
释义	stockyard noun stock·​yard ˈstäk-ˌyärd  : a yard for stock specifically : one in which transient cattle, sheep, swine, or horses are kept temporarily for slaughter, market, or shipping Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web And by the time his son came of age, every day there were 10,000 Black dudes getting off the train taking the steel mill and stockyard jobs. Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 11 Feb. 2022 The Rock Island Bridge crossing the Kansas River was built in 1905 to carry trains to and from a nearby stockyard but has been unused since the 1970s. Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2021 The Chicago River was once so polluted one swath became known for bubbles that would rise up from the rotting stockyard carcasses below. Nicole Stock, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2021 The idea was to restore civility to the often-caustic world of politics, but some thought that was little more than a polite veneer, like spraying air freshener on a stockyard. Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2021 Officers were responding to an animal complaint Saturday night after a cow escaped a stockyard earlier in the day, the Harrisonburg Police Department said. Doha Madani, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2021 Basinger, who has a stockyard in Indiana, is used to brokering and hauling horses and cattle and even buffalo. Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 1 Mar. 2021 In that regard, the terrain of Spokane was as rich as a Chicago stockyard or a central California migrant-labor camp. Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020 Within weeks of the Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch-counter sit in, Clyburn's classmates organized a 1,000-student march in rural Orangeburg, South Carolina, with hundreds arrested, jailed in an outdoor stockyard. Lisa Mascaro, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020 See More Word History First Known Use 1756, in the meaning defined above Kids Definition stockyard noun stock·​yard ˈstäk-ˌyärd  : a yard for keeping livestock about to be slaughtered or shipped stockyards noun plural of stockyard as in feedlots Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance feedlots yards ranches prairies stations grasslands pastures pampas steppes savannas savannahs leas pasturages leys ranges
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