Associations to the word «Stockyard»

Wiktionary

STOCKYARD, noun. (US) An enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.

Dictionary definition

STOCKYARD, noun. Enclosed yard where cattle, pigs, horses, or sheep are kept temporarily.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope