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stockyard

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

Noun

stockyard (plural stockyards)

  1. (Australia, US) An 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

stockyard meaning in Tamil

stockyard in Tamil

கால்நடைப் பட்டி, பெருந்தொழுவம்

Forms of stockyard

pluralstockyards

Origin of stockyard

From stock + yard.

Words formed from stockyard

Phrases with stockyard

Questions about stockyard

What does stockyard mean?
Stockyard means an enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.
What is stockyard in Tamil?
Stockyard in Tamil is கால்நடைப் பட்டி, பெருந்தொழுவம். See Stockyard meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stockyard?
Stockyard is a noun.
What is the plural of stockyard?
The plural of stockyard is stockyards.

Words near stockyard in the dictionary

  1. stockwork
  2. stockworker
  3. stockworkers
  4. stockworks
  5. stocky
  6. stockyard
  7. Stockyard Creek
  8. Stockyard Hill
  9. stockyards
  10. Stocqueler
  11. Stocquelers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stockyard (page history and authors); stockyard (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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