goods yard
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An area associated with a railway station where freight is loaded and unloaded.
Example Sentences
- "Kim led to the fort-like railway station, black in the end of night; the electrics sizzling over the goods-yard where they handle the heavy Northern traffic."
- "After marching into a goods yard beyond the station and halting beside a train, the manacled prisoners were pushed into cattle-trucks […]"
- "Here the line is joined by the Colne Valley branch, and both tracks are carried into Haverhill station upon a high embankment from which the town can be seen on the south side. The twin tracks, after traversing a scissors crossover, become the down and up roads through the station, which possesses an extensive goods yard."
- "At the western perimeter the old railway station with its busy goods yards has become a bleak coach terminal: no bustle, no people, just an empty space and a timetable."