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Noun
stockyard (plural stockyards)
- (US, Australia) An enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.
- 29 June 1940, Mary Gilmore, "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest", in The Australian Women's Weekly (Sydney), p. 5:
- No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
- No foe shall gather our harvest,
- 29 June 1940, Mary Gilmore, "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest", in The Australian Women's Weekly (Sydney), p. 5:
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