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n. wreck yard.
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A wrecking yard ( Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian English), scrapyard ( British English) or junkyard ( American English) is the location of a business in dismantling where wrecked or decommissioned vehicles are brought, their usable parts are sold for use in operating vehicles, while the unusable metal parts, known as scrap metal parts, are sold to metal- recycling companies. Other terms include wreck yard, wrecker's yard, salvage yard, breakers yard, dismantler and scrapheap. In the United Kingdom, car salvage yards are known as car breakers, while motorcycle salvage yards are known as bike breakers. In Australia, they are often referred to as 'Wreckers'.
Usage examples of "wrecking yard".
We were told at the port that there's a wrecking yard not far from here, back toward the port someplace.
Her adventures at the wrecking yard had left her clothes damp and rumpled, her hair alternately plastered to her head and curling rebelliously where it had dried in the air from the heater.
And when he did learn it, he was going to start seeing those offering plates (a bunch of used hubcaps bought cheap from the wrecking yard) fill up with some serious jack.
People vanish and their bodies are put in quicklime, or hidden graves, or mashed in an automobile-wrecking yard, or put in a coffin under a legitimate corpse, or .
Ownerless, airless, the hulk was towed to a wrecking yard and forgotten.
He knew a wrecking yard when he saw one, and he remembered the PCO from innumerable hinterland corners: snotty-nosed, one foot in the gutter, leaving small toothmarks on the bone.
THE wrecking yard had once boasted a large and perpetually irate Doberman pinscher, but the dog had developed a tumor the previous spring and savaged its owner.
The recovery team had sold it to Sykes as scrap, for he ran a car-wrecking yard in Wandsworth.
Rawlings, in fact, had a scrap-metal dealership and car-wrecking yard.
He had acquired a fifty foot piece of chain from a fellow horse player on Eighth Street who worked at a wrecking yard, and with a tempered steel lock supplied by the same friend, had crisscrossed his torso, using the chain like the bandolier of a Mexican bandit.
Over the broken remnants of two wire gates, a listing sign with faded paint proclaimed Samuelson's Wrecking Yard.