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graveyard|ˈgreɪvjɑːd|
[f. grave n.1 + yard.]
1. A burial-ground.
1773P. V. Fithian Jrnl. (1900) 74 He meant it for a Satire upon the neglect of the people in suffering their Grave-Yard to lie common. 1806M. L. Weems Lett. (1929) II. 344 Constantly walking over the grave yard of Foreigners. 1822J. F. Cooper Spy (1831) xiv. 168 The grave-yard was an enclosure on the grounds of Mr. Wharton. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 20 Moving slowly..on their way to the grave-yard. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 621 The..desolate graveyard of Donore. 1882‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. at Home iii. 278 A desperado..who ‘kept his private graveyard’, as the phrase went.
transf.1843Quincy (Ill.) Whig 7 Jan. 2/6 The iron steamer Valley Forge has been sunk at the ‘Grave Yard’ below St. Louis. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlii. (1856) 389, I remember..coming to a little graveyard of ice-tablets. 1879Chambers's Jrnl. 18 Oct. 663/2 Those whose biographies lie in the sub-editorial desk—‘grave⁓yard’ this compartment is grimly called. 1933P. A. Eaddy Hull Down vii. 157 She had gone ashore on what was known as the ‘Graveyard’, on the northern side of the entrance to the Kaipara River. 1953R. Graves Poems 30 Must the book end, as you would end it, With testamentary appendices And graveyard indices? 1965New Statesman 7 May 715/2, I survived part of adolescence in the despair of Dundee, that industrial graveyard of the Thirties. 1969Daily Tel. 8 Feb. 1 The M1 motorway was a graveyard of cars abandoned across all six lanes.
2. attrib. and Comb., as graveyard cough, graveyard test; graveyard-minded adj.; graveyard shift, watch (see quots.).
1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West 33, I was shaken by an ominous graveyard cough. 1890E. Dowson Let. 11 Feb. (1967) 137, I have a graveyard cough of the most alarming dimensions. 1948I. Brown No Idle Words 71 No doubt Housman did overplay the lads, lightfoot or grave-yard-minded.
1907Collier's 26 Jan. 14/1 From the saloons came the clink of the chips. For it was the ‘grave⁓yard gamblers’ shift... The small hours of the morning..are theirs. 1908Sat. Even. Post 7 Nov. 27/2 A month later he and his fellows went on ‘graveyard’ shift. ‘Graveyard’ is the interval between twelve, midnight, and eight in the morning. 1965‘E. McBain’ Doll (1966) ii. 22 The afternoon shift is from four p.m. to midnight. And the graveyard shift is midnight to eight a.m.
1957Brit. Commonw. Forest Terminol. ii. 85 Graveyard test, a test conducted out of doors on pieces of timber in contact with the ground to determine their durability.
1927G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 76/1 Graveyard watch, the middle watch or 12 to 4 a.m., because of the number of disasters that occur at this time. 1928Papers Mich. Acad. Sci. & Arts X. 297 Graveyard watch, the watch from midnight till 4 a.m., so called on account of the silence throughout the ship. 1933J. H. McCulloch Million Miles in Sail vii. 125 Without this arrangement..the ‘graveyard watch’—or..the middle watch..would fall to the lot of the same men each night. |