holding yard

1. 1.

   a pen where livestock is temporarily confined

   Synonymsholding penholding paddock

   Broaderpen

Questions about holding yard

What does holding yard mean?

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

What is another word for holding yard?

Close synonyms include holding pen, holding paddock. 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 yard a common word?

holding yard 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.