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goods yards

goods yards is the plural of goods yard.

Meaning of goods yard

Noun

goods yard (plural goods yards)

  1. An area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded.
    • Kim led to the fort-like railway station, black in the end of night; the electrics sizzling over the goods-yard where they handle the heavy Northern traffic.1901, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 2, in Kim, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41
    Synonyms:
    freight yard

Questions about goods yards

What is goods yards the plural of?
Goods yards is the plural of goods yard.

Words near goods yards in the dictionary

  1. goods van
  2. goods vans
  3. goods wagon
  4. goods wagons
  5. goods yard
  6. goods yards
  7. goods-to-person
  8. goods-to-picker
  9. Goodsall
  10. Goodsalls
  11. Goodsell

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