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scrapyard
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also scrap-yard , 1875, from scrap (n.1) + yard (n.1).
Usage examples of scrapyard.
He had imagined Beaumont was testing him in his new role as second in command of the Scrapyard Flotilla.
Once-elegant apartment buildings stood next to scrapyards, and where there had been furriers and movie palaces there were now blood banks and methadone clinics and Mother Waddles Perpetual Mission.
He had sometimes thought of buying a small plot of land and leaving it as an inheritance to one of his parishioners on condition that a sheltered corner be reserved for his car to rest in, but there was not one parishioner whom he could trust to carry out his wish, and in any case a slow death by rust could not be avoided and perhaps a crusher at a scrapyard would be a more merciful end.