stockyard
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The price of the grilled rib-eye might have you choking, but the $90 stockyard — er, platter — of blushing beef, sliced for easy feasting, could easily feed a bunkhouse.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2022
A former overnight stockyard worker, he collects, weighs and tags hams before pushing them into an industrial cooler.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2020
Merwin examined his own mind in “Plane” and found it “infinitely divided and hopeless/like a stockyard seen from above.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
The Bull’s Head, which operated from the 1750s through the first quarter of the 19th century, was part of a sprawling complex that included a stockyard.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2016
Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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