truckyard

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English

Etymology

truck +‎ yard

Noun

truckyard (plural truckyards)

  1. A yard where trucks are loaded and unloaded.
    Coordinate terms: depot, railyard, switchyard
    • 2007 August 25, Matthew Summers-Sparks, “One Part Cement, Two Parts Whimsy, One Odd Park”, in New York Times:
      ST. LOUIS — In an industrial area here known for truckyards, not art, a sculptor and entrepreneur named Bob Cassilly stands on a 100-foot-tall hill, created from some of the 182,000 truckloads of dirt that have been unloaded and applied to the skeleton of a former cement factory.

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