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scrap-yard

scrap-yard is the alternative spelling of scrapyard.

Meaning of scrapyard

Noun

scrapyard (plural scrapyards)

  1. A junkyard; a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.
    • A steady procession of new Class 421 and '423' electric multiple units to the Southern Region from Derby and York allowed the despatch of many pre-nationalisation 2-BIL and 2-HAL units to scrapyards.2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67

Forms of scrap-yard

pluralscrap-yards

Questions about scrap-yard

What is scrap-yard the alternative spelling of?
Scrap-yard is the alternative spelling of scrapyard.

Words near scrap-yard in the dictionary

  1. scrap paper
  2. scrap yard
  3. scrap yards
  4. scrap-heap
  5. scrap-heaps
  6. scrap-yard
  7. scrap-yards
  8. scrapable
  9. scrapbook
  10. scrapbooked
  11. scrapbooker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrap-yard (page history and authors); scrapyard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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