What is another word for stockyard?

Pronunciation: [stˈɒkjɑːd] (IPA)

A stockyard, also known as a cattle yard or livestock yard, is a place where livestock, typically cattle, are kept before they are sold or transported. However, there are several synonyms for the word "stockyard" that may be used depending on the region or context. Some of the common synonyms include feedlot, holding pen, corral, paddock, pasture, and range. Each term might have slight differences in meaning and usage, but they all refer to facilities designed to contain and manage herds or flocks of livestock. Understanding these synonyms can aid communication and promote accuracy in describing livestock operations.

Synonyms for Stockyard:

What are the hypernyms for Stockyard?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Stockyard?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
  • hyponyms for stockyard (as nouns)

Usage examples for Stockyard

I proceeded forward in search of a deserted stockyard, called Tabbaratong, where some water was said still to remain.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell
He and Steve's black boy 've run up a stockyard near McMillan's hut in Narrow Valley, and Conal and he mean to take the mob with that lot of Maitland's cattle he brought down for fattening, not this, but last trip, up by the Snowy River into New South Wales."
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
We had a steak dinner and the meat in the stockyard district was totally different from anything in the East.
"The Biography of a Rabbit"
Roy Benson, Jr.

Famous quotes with Stockyard

  • Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
    H. L. Mencken
  • Then soon after my delight with Stein was jolted; a political critic of the reddest persuasion condemned Stein in a newspaper article, calling her decadent, implying that she reclined upon a silken couch in Paris smoking hashish day and night and was a hopeless prey to hallucinations. I asked myself if I were wrong or crazy or decadent. Being simple minded, I decided upon a very practical way of determining the worth of the prose of Stein, a prose I had accepted without qualms or distress. I gathered a group of semi-illiterate Negro workers into a Chicago basement and read them aloud. They were enthralled, interrupting me constantly to tell where and when they had met such a strange and melancholy gal. I was convinced and Miss Stein's book never bothered or frightened me after that. If Negro stockyard workers could understand the stuff when it was read aloud to them, then surely anybody else could if they wanted to read with their ears as well as their eyes. For the prose of Stein is but the repetitive contemporaneousness of our living speech woven into a grammarless form of narrative...
    Gertrude Stein

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