(US, AU) An enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc.
29 June 1940, Mary Gilmore, "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest", in ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' (Sydney), p. 5:
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