stockyard.

A yard or group of enclosures where livestock are held, especially before sale or transport.

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Words that belong together

• a cattle stockyard
• stockyard pens

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The cattle stockyard smelled of wet hides and trampled straw.

A loose gate divided the stockyard pens less securely than the workers expected.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting. Forms: Singular stockyard; plural stockyards. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.