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freight yard en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives.
    • Passing trains that have no names Freight yards full of old black men And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles 1971, Steve Goodman, “City of New Orleans”:
    • We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard. 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 85:

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Synonyms

goods yard