pasture vs stockyard

pasture

noun
  • Ground covered with grass or herbage, used or suitable for the grazing of livestock. 

  • Land, specifically, an open field, on which livestock is kept for feeding. 

verb
  • To move animals into a pasture. 

  • To graze. 

  • To feed, especially on growing grass; to supply grass as food for. 

stockyard

noun
  • An enclosed yard, with pens, sheds etc. or stables, where livestock is kept temporarily before being slaughtered, treated, sold, or shipped etc. 

How often have the words pasture and stockyard occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )