truckyard
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]truckyard (plural truckyards)
- 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[1]:
- 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.