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Definition: Stockyard |
StockyardNoun1. Enclosed yard where cattle, pigs, horses, or sheep are kept temporarily. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stockyard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A space reserved on the surface near the materials shaft for the temporary storage of steel, timber, and other bulky items of supplies for mine use.The yard is surfaced and a mine car is used throughout. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Stockyard |
| Specialty definitions using "stockyard": LIVESTOCK-YARD ATTENDANT ♦ SUPERVISOR, LIVESTOCK-YARD ♦ timber trolley. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Stockyard attendants herding hogs into pens at stockyards, Aledo, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Men sitting in front of stockyard office, San Angelo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Stockmen sitting on fence at stockyard, San Angelo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cattlemen at stockyard, San Angelo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cattle. Stockyard, Denver, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Feeding cattle at stockyard. Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Feeding drought cattle. Stockyard. Billings, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Attendants at the stockyard in Aledo, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Illinois farmer with a calf he has brought to the stockyard at Aledo, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Chicago, Illinois. Union stockyard. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Stockyard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "Stockyard" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
restaurant stockyard | 22 |
stockyard | 20 |
stockyard hotel | 11 |
nashville restaurant stockyard | 9 |
bank stockyard | 6 |
fort stockyard worth | 6 |
meat stockyard | 6 |
nashville stockyard | 6 |
steak stockyard | 5 |
station stockyard | 4 |
stockyard hotel fort worth | 3 |
chicago stockyard | 3 |
murder mystery stockyard | 2 |
stockyard stoics | 2 |
inn stockyard | 2 |
ft stockyard worth | 2 |
cullman stockyard | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "stockyard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | stallë (byre, Mews, pen, stall, stud), vathë (corral, Cote, ear ring, eardrop, fold, pen, Pinfold, run, runway, sheep pen, sheep-cote, sheepfold, yard), plevicë (depot, hayloft, mow, serai). (various references) | |
Arabic | فناء الماشية, حظيرة الماشية, حظيرة (cowshed, enclosure, pen, stockade, yard). (various references) | |
Chinese | 牲畜饲养场. (various references) | |
Czech | ohrada pro dobytek na tržišti. (various references) | |
Danish | gårdsplads (court, courtyard, yard). (various references) | |
Dutch | erf (court, courtyard, yard). (various references) | |
Farsi | محل فروش دام , محوطه دامداری , دامگاه (Menagerie). (various references) | |
French | parc de bétail, parc bestiaux, parc, cour de ferme. (various references) | |
German | Stapelplatz. (various references) | |
Greek | μάντρα ζώων, μάνδρα ζώων για σφαγή, αυλή αγροκτήματος (cattle yard, farmyard, yard), αυλή αγροικίας (cattle yard, farmyard, yard). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכלאת בקר. (various references) | |
Italian | recinto per bestiame (corral), cortile aziendale (cattle yard, farmyard, yard), corte rurale (cattle yard, farmyard, yard). (various references) | |
Korean | 가축 방목장. (various references) | |
Manx | close ollee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ockyardstay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | quinteiro (cattle yard, farmyard, yard), pátio (concourse, court, courtyard, garth, out-of-door, quadrangle, terrace, yard), curral (cattle shed, corral, cote, cowhouse, cowshed, kraal, pen, pinfold, stable, stall, sty). (various references) | |
Russian | скотный двор (butchery, farmyard). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | stočno dvorište. (various references) | |
Spanish | corral de ganado. (various references) | |
Thai | คอกปศุสัตว์ชั่วคราว. (various references) | |
Turkish | ağıl (aureola, aureole, compound, corral, cot, Cote, fold, halation, hovel, lair, pen, Pinfold, pound, sheep fold, sheep pen, yard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скотний двір (barn, barn-yard, yard). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bãi r o chăn nuôi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "stockyard": stockyards. (additional references) | |
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"Stockyard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stockbar, Stockyaryd. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "stockyard" (pronounced stÄ"kyÄ'rd) |
| 6 | -Ä" k y Ä' r d | dockyard. |
| 5 | -k y Ä' r d | backyard, brickyard, junkyard. |
| 4 | -y Ä' r d | barnyard, boatyard, churchyard, courtyard, lumberyard, farmyard, graveyard, schoolyard, shipyard, willyard. |
| 3 | -Ä' r d | bankcard, bodyguard, Boulevard, diehard, leotard, lifeguard, postcard, safeguard, scorecard, vanguard. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-k-o-r-s-t-y" | |
-2 letters: costard. | |
-3 letters: actors, castor, costar, croaks, croaky, drosky, korats, octads, scrota, stocky, tarocs, taroks, todays, tokays, tracks, troaks, trocks. | |
-4 letters: actor, artsy, ascot, cards, carks, carts, casky, coast, coats, codas, cords, corks, corky, costa, croak, darks, darts, datos, doats, docks, dorks, dorky, dorsa, dorty, drats, drays, karst, karts, kayos, korat, kyars, kyats, octad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-k-o-r-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: stockyards. | |
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