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stockyards

stockyards is the plural of stockyard.

Meaning of stockyard

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

Questions about stockyards

What is stockyards the plural of?
Stockyards is the plural of stockyard.

Words near stockyards in the dictionary

  1. stockworks
  2. stocky
  3. stockyard
  4. Stockyard Creek
  5. Stockyard Hill
  6. stockyards
  7. Stocqueler
  8. Stocquelers
  9. stod
  10. Stoddard
  11. Stoddard County

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