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freight yard en · NOUN
Meanings
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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:
Forms
Synonyms
goods yard