stockyard

noun

stock·yard ˈstäk-ˌyärd

: a yard for stock

specifically : one in which transient cattle, sheep, swine, or horses are kept temporarily for slaughter, market, or shipping

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The Klan organized a boycott of her stockyard, forcing the business to close. After 1964, Mars largely stopped taking photos but remained obsessed with the murders. —

Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024 Upscale apartments and condos now stand on the site of once-bustling stockyards. —

Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2024 In addition to working horses, the authors focus on the cattle and pigs being slaughtered in the Chicago stockyards, the elephants touring the country with P.T. Barnum’s circus, and the city dogs swept up daily by dogcatchers and taken to the pound. —

Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2024 The Kimpton Harper Fort Worth is in the heart of downtown and within easy walking distance of the convention center and a short driver to the famous stockyards. —

Kim Westerman, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stockyard