Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A stock yard which has many small yards or pens arranged for sorting sheep.
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Examples
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When the sheep are in that small yard C (which is called the drafting-yard), you can overhaul them, and your men can catch the lambs and hold them up to you over the rail of the yard to ear-mark and tail.
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Thus, the view we get of the drafting-yard at Garoopna, with Sam Buckley in torn shirt, dust-covered, and wielding a deft pole on the noses of the terrified cattle, is not presented as a piece of station-life so much as
Australian Writers Desmond Byrne
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