freight yard

See also: freightyard

English

Noun

freight yard (plural freight yards)

  1. A rail yard for freight cars, typically designed for loading and unloading cargo and sorting locomotives.
    • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 85:
      We got into Milan early in the morning and they unloaded us in the freight yard.

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