stockyard

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noun

An enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.

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Meanings

nounstockyard (plural stockyards)

plural stockyards

  1. AustraliaUSAn enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.

    No foe shall gather our harvest, Or sit on our stockyard rail.

    29 June 1940, Mary Gilmore, "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest", in The Australian Women's Weekly (Sydney), p. 5

Origin

From stock + yard.

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Translations

Finnish karjatarha
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German Viehhof
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Māori tōkiāri
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Portuguese redil
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APA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “stockyard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/stockyard.

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