truckyard

English

Etymology

From truck +‎ yard.

Noun

truckyard (plural truckyards)

1. 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.

Related terms

• yard jockey