stockyard

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synonyms for stockyard

On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stockyard, such as: abattoir, butchery, and shambles.

How to use stockyard in a sentence

  • The opening of western grazing lands and the great stockyard complexes of the midwest had made beef the relatively cheap meat.

  • They rode on past a stockyard, and into a rutted street of bare frame houses, and Hetty was glad they scarcely met anybody.

    The Cattle-Baron's Daughter | Harold Bindloss
  • We had a steak dinner and the meat in the stockyard district was totally different from anything in the East.

  • Jim has just gone across to the stockyard, but he will be back to breakfast in a moment.

  • The bull was led onto the weighing platform and after being weighed, was put in one of the enclosures of the stockyard.

    Ticktock and Jim | Keith Robertson
  • When there was an unusually large amount of stock to be sold, part of it was kept at the stockyard and driven over as required.

    Ticktock and Jim | Keith Robertson

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