What is "stockyard"

Usage examples of "stockyard".

Getting off the train at Florence too late to ride on, Longarm got a room in a third-class hotel near the railside stockyards, drawing looks that were thoughtful to hostile as he deposited the loaded-up roping saddle on the floor near the desk to sign in.

Cadool hurried far into the stockyard, approaching a shoveler with a semicircular crest.

If things went right I could go home with Bobbi, enjoy the party she was throwing, and still have time to visit the Stockyards.

In a country like England, with its mines and stockyards and shipbuilding, its cotton mills and factories, canals would inevitably have given way to faster, more adaptable railways that could cut through mountains, climb hills, and cross valleys without the time-consuming and expensive business of locks filling and emptying, and the moving of tons of water.

Cat almost missed seeing the exit sign for the historic Stockyards District.

August--a cocktail waitress got mugged in the parking lot after her shift ended, and a treasury agent spent two nights next door at the Stockyards Hotel.

We left the Merchandise Mart and zapped off on a freeway to the Auto Show -- and suddenly it registered: The Stockyards Amphitheatre.

I once saw Jean-Claude Killy across a crowded room at the Stockyards Amphitheatre.

For that matter, if it were given me to choose between being compelled to live in Molokai for the rest of my life, or in the East End of London, the East Side of New York, or the Stockyards of Chicago, I would select Molokai without debate.

With cattle in the Stockyards it was simple feeding, a necessary chore.

And when we start the drive to the stockyards in Abilene, we need to leave extra help here to see to the ranch chores.

Both he and Klopp were tonsured in the severely barbered style of the young stockyard bloods down in Dry Hole, their hair sparingly confined to the crown of the head, like a treed, short-furred cat.

We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

I must warn you, however, that his story combines such unrelated and unlikely events as the escape of a bull from the stockyards, the drunken caperings of a college professor who was noted for his dedicated sobriety, to say nothing of the disappearance of said professor of classical literature and two of his students on the same night.

A guy like me, a guy from the stockyards that played himself a lot of very tough left end at a cow college and left his looks and education on the scoreboard.