Meanings
plural freight yards
- A rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives.
We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard.
1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 851 more example
Passing trains that have no names Freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles
1971, Steve Goodman, “City of New Orleans”Synonyms: goods yard
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives.
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