dry lot

noun

, Agriculture.

1. a fenced-in area that is free of vegetation and is used for the containment, feeding, and fattening of livestock.

Word History and Origins

Origin of dry lot¹

1920–25; dry (implying a lack of vegetation, as opposed to pasture) + lot

Example Sentences

The mega-dairies that have sprung up in states like California, Oregon, Arizona, and Idaho in recent decades, on the other hand, are mainly confinement-based, or what they call "dry lot" operations.

From Salon

John, however, had looked the old volumes over and pronounced them a dry lot—give him something fresher.

From Project Gutenberg

Today there is not a single seedling growing out of the dry lot, and there is a perfect stand in the group that was stratified.

From Project Gutenberg

He and his—notably the church-ridden Mr. Raney, who does not even smoke—are a dry lot.

From Project Gutenberg

Gehazi the leper is in cheese when it is white and dry; Lot's wife when it is too salt; Argus's eyes are obvious: Tom Piper hath hoven and puffed up cheeks; poor Cobler is there when it is leathery; Esau betrays himself by hairs, Maudlin by weeping; and as for the "Bishop that burneth" the explanation is complicated.

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