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Stockyard

noun

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

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"Stockyard" Quotes from Famous Books

... the boy get the cattle out, but he said, "No, Paw said it would not matter if they got into the hay, but that he had to knock off some poles on another part of the stockyard so that some horses could get in ...

— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart

... Dad was out again in about two shakes, ready for the fray, and you can bet the rest of us didn't linger long. Billy had the horses up almost as soon, and every one got his own. Things were a bit merry in the stockyard, I can tell you, and heels ...

— A Little Bush Maid • Mary Grant Bruce

... voice. My ear-drum, grown painfully sensitive since I met your mother, echoed and reechoed with the tone as I threaded my way through the crowded room, followed by every eye, while I imagined people saying: "I wonder if he's called to the stockyard?" (It is queer, but I never felt this way in Oxford, for they still remember Hogg, the Scottish poet, and I hung myself to his ...

— Ladies-In-Waiting • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... jus' com' from Chicago town, A seein' all de sights From stockyard to de ballet gairl, All drass' in spangled tights. But all de worstes' nonsens' T'roo vich I got to wade, I t'ink de t'ing dat gats de cake Ees place ...

— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) • Various

... over, you match-making creature," and then he went off to the stockyard, apparently unconcerned, but secretly delighted at what his sister had told him, and she smiled to herself, for she knew that when he spoke of thinking about a matter, he ...

— Tom Gerrard - 1904 • Louis Becke