holding pen

1. 1.

   a pen where livestock is temporarily confined

   Synonymsholding paddockholding yard

   Broaderpen

Questions about holding pen

What does holding pen mean?

holding pen means "a pen where livestock is temporarily confined".

What is another word for holding pen?

Close synonyms include holding paddock, holding yard. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is holding pen a common word?

holding pen is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.