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goods yard
noun
, British.
- a railway freight yard.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of goods yard1
First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences
We pass a railway goods yard where plundered flour is being carried away in sacks.
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Most of them, when before the Committee, find excuses, like the boy who was caught with others stealing in a railway goods yard.
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But they had, by this time, arrived at the railway station, and the detachment was halted in the goods-yard just outside.
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For the unloading of railway trucks in a crowded goods-yard it is undoubtedly applicable.
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