boneyardn.

Brit.

/ˈbəʊnjɑːd/, U.S.

/ˈboʊnˌjɑrd/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bone n.¹, yard n.¹

Etymology: < bone n.¹ + yard n.¹ With sense 2 compare equivalent uses of graveyard n.

Chiefly North American.

a. A yard or place where the bones of dead horses and other animals are collected for subsequent use; a knacker's yard.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place of auction > [noun] > enclosure for livestock > for animal bones

boneyard1820

1820 Evans & Ruffy's Farmers Jrnl. 28 Feb. 1/1 It is by far the most general way, in Lincolnshire, to use them [sc. bones] nearly as they come from the London bone yards.

1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 127 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 39) V To bring a flock of sheep into winter quarters in thin and feeble condition..will doubtless hasten many of them to the bone-yard.

1883 Cent. Mag. 27 3 Torture them [sc. horses] in their last hours on the way to the bone-yard.

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 7 Oct. 7 A dilapidated horse saved from the bone-yard.

1949 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 2/4 Jockey street..was the scene of much trading with many of the animals apparently refugees from the boneyard.

2006 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 24 June (Sport section) 4 More than a few horses that aren't earning their keep have ended up at the boneyard, the halos they wore as winners forgotten.

b. slang. A cemetery, a graveyard.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun]

littenc900

charnel1377

burying-place1382

fosse?a1425

churchyard1477

golgotha1604

God's acre1605

cemetery1613

burial-place1633

dormitory1634

burying-ground1711

burial-field1743

graveyard1767

burial-ground1803

burial-yard1842

boneyard1866

Boot Hill1901

necropole1921

memorial park1927

grave-site1953

1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 277 It's one of them infernal old ancient graveyards... Yes, likely. I suppose you didn't know that bone yard was there.

1916 R. W. Service Rhymes Red Cross Man 81 I makes me way to the boneyard.

1945 R. Finlayson in F. Sargeson Speaking for Ourselves 17 He wouldn't have gone home late at night past the old bone-yard.

1999 Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 31 Oct. b 3/3 Breaking the family's code of silence will almost always get you a one-way ticket to the boneyard.

c. A place where the bones of wild animals, esp. elephants, are said to accumulate, sometimes believed to be a particular site sought by old or sick animals in which to die.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > [noun] > place of > of animals

boneyard1900

1900 W. J. Long Wilderness Ways 23 I have met men..who speak of ‘bone yards’ which they have discovered... They say that the caribou go there to die.

1933 Winnipeg Free Press 12 Aug. 15/3 Companies have been formed to seek out this elephant boneyard, somewhere in the vast mysteries of the jungle, and bring back the millions of dollars in ivory it must contain.

1947 G. Sinclair Signposts to Adventure xxix. 323 He spent three years in a search for the boneyard of the elephants.

2016 Bangkok Post (Nexis) 6 Sept. A man claims to have found a natural graveyard filled with bones of wild monkeys... The boneyard was found in Khao Lorn Valley.

2. figurative and in extended use.

a. A notional place to which something that has lost its purpose, vitality, usefulness, etc., is consigned. Frequently in extended metaphors.

ΚΠ

1850 Daily Union (Washington) 24 Dec. He implored the House at once to dispose of the bill without sending it to the bone-yard of nearly all the good laws which had been proposed in twenty-five years past.

1871 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 15 Aug. Any newspaper dependent on R. D. Fletcher's advertising would go to the boneyard in a galloping consumption.

1908 Cosmopolitan Mag. Apr. 460/2 All knowledge isn't confined to business and books. Buck up. We'll fool the financial bone-yard for a while yet.

1976 Art Educ. Dec. 25/2 Darwin didn't find the skeleton of a new theory of evolution in the boneyard of the catastrophists and the fundamentalists.

2015 L. Buffaloe Living Joyfully Free Devotional 14 A veritable bone yard of past issues, bad memories, and tormenting nightmares.

b. A place where old or discarded items are collected or abandoned; esp. a place where ships, cars, or other vehicles are sent for breaking into scrap; a scrapyard.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > scrap iron > heap of > site of

boneyard1860

junkyard1869

scrap-ground1927

scrapyard1963

1860 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger 15 June The Melrose [sc. a steamboat] has also been laid up here, and was taken to the boneyard yesterday.

1885 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 15 Apr. San Francisco has a ‘lumber boneyard’—a place where the extensive syndicate..sends any cargo..which appears to be in excess of home demand.

1929 Washington Post 2 Aug. 13/1 The boys used to haunt the automobile bone-yards, picking up a gasket here a brake-band there.

1942 R. Swanson Rhymes 49 Engine wreckage, empty petrol tins, tools..made a ‘boneyard’ behind the stove.

1962 R. Bradbury Something Wicked this Way Comes xv. 75 It looked like a titanic magnet that had collected to itself, from locomotive boneyards across three continents, drive shafts, flywheels, smoke stacks.

2012 R. W. Lawhn in J. L. Jacobus Inside Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild xxvi. 237 We ate lunch outdoors adjacent to a ‘bone yard’ of wrecked vehicles.

3. The stock of dominoes from which players draw during a game; cf. bone n.¹ 22.

ΚΠ

1917 Normal Instructor & Primary Plans May 77/2 Each pupil drew a domino in turn and called the number. If he could spell the word on my list that corresponded to his domino he kept it. If not he returned it to the boneyard.

1951 Portland (Maine) Sunday Telegram 28 Jan. (Mag. section) 6/2 Mother..would remember just what ones I did not have and would send me to the boneyard time after time.

2009 Math Escapades (Reader's Theater) 51 The bones are shuffled by turning them facedown on a table and mixing them. Then players draw or select bones from the boneyard.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	boneyard
释义	boneyardn. Brit. /ˈbəʊnjɑːd/, U.S. /ˈboʊnˌjɑrd/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bone n.¹, yard n.¹ Etymology: < bone n.¹ + yard n.¹ With sense 2 compare equivalent uses of graveyard n. Chiefly North American. 1. a. A yard or place where the bones of dead horses and other animals are collected for subsequent use; a knacker's yard. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place of auction > [noun] > enclosure for livestock > for animal bones boneyard1820 1820 Evans & Ruffy's Farmers Jrnl. 28 Feb. 1/1 It is by far the most general way, in Lincolnshire, to use them [sc. bones] nearly as they come from the London bone yards. 1862 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1861: Agric. 127 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (37th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 39) V To bring a flock of sheep into winter quarters in thin and feeble condition..will doubtless hasten many of them to the bone-yard. 1883 Cent. Mag. 27 3 Torture them [sc. horses] in their last hours on the way to the bone-yard. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 7 Oct. 7 A dilapidated horse saved from the bone-yard. 1949 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 2/4 Jockey street..was the scene of much trading with many of the animals apparently refugees from the boneyard. 2006 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 24 June (Sport section) 4 More than a few horses that aren't earning their keep have ended up at the boneyard, the halos they wore as winners forgotten. b. slang. A cemetery, a graveyard. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] littenc900 charnel1377 burying-place1382 fosse?a1425 churchyard1477 golgotha1604 God's acre1605 cemetery1613 burial-place1633 dormitory1634 burying-ground1711 burial-field1743 graveyard1767 burial-ground1803 burial-yard1842 boneyard1866 Boot Hill1901 necropole1921 memorial park1927 grave-site1953 1866 ‘M. Twain’ Lett. from Hawaii (1967) 277 It's one of them infernal old ancient graveyards... Yes, likely. I suppose you didn't know that bone yard was there. 1916 R. W. Service Rhymes Red Cross Man 81 I makes me way to the boneyard. 1945 R. Finlayson in F. Sargeson Speaking for Ourselves 17 He wouldn't have gone home late at night past the old bone-yard. 1999 Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 31 Oct. b 3/3 Breaking the family's code of silence will almost always get you a one-way ticket to the boneyard. c. A place where the bones of wild animals, esp. elephants, are said to accumulate, sometimes believed to be a particular site sought by old or sick animals in which to die. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > place of > of animals boneyard1900 1900 W. J. Long Wilderness Ways 23 I have met men..who speak of ‘bone yards’ which they have discovered... They say that the caribou go there to die. 1933 Winnipeg Free Press 12 Aug. 15/3 Companies have been formed to seek out this elephant boneyard, somewhere in the vast mysteries of the jungle, and bring back the millions of dollars in ivory it must contain. 1947 G. Sinclair Signposts to Adventure xxix. 323 He spent three years in a search for the boneyard of the elephants. 2016 Bangkok Post (Nexis) 6 Sept. A man claims to have found a natural graveyard filled with bones of wild monkeys... The boneyard was found in Khao Lorn Valley. 2. figurative and in extended use. a. A notional place to which something that has lost its purpose, vitality, usefulness, etc., is consigned. Frequently in extended metaphors. ΚΠ 1850 Daily Union (Washington) 24 Dec. He implored the House at once to dispose of the bill without sending it to the bone-yard of nearly all the good laws which had been proposed in twenty-five years past. 1871 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 15 Aug. Any newspaper dependent on R. D. Fletcher's advertising would go to the boneyard in a galloping consumption. 1908 Cosmopolitan Mag. Apr. 460/2 All knowledge isn't confined to business and books. Buck up. We'll fool the financial bone-yard for a while yet. 1976 Art Educ. Dec. 25/2 Darwin didn't find the skeleton of a new theory of evolution in the boneyard of the catastrophists and the fundamentalists. 2015 L. Buffaloe Living Joyfully Free Devotional 14 A veritable bone yard of past issues, bad memories, and tormenting nightmares. b. A place where old or discarded items are collected or abandoned; esp. a place where ships, cars, or other vehicles are sent for breaking into scrap; a scrapyard. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > scrap iron > heap of > site of boneyard1860 junkyard1869 scrap-ground1927 scrapyard1963 1860 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger 15 June The Melrose [sc. a steamboat] has also been laid up here, and was taken to the boneyard yesterday. 1885 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye 15 Apr. San Francisco has a ‘lumber boneyard’—a place where the extensive syndicate..sends any cargo..which appears to be in excess of home demand. 1929 Washington Post 2 Aug. 13/1 The boys used to haunt the automobile bone-yards, picking up a gasket here a brake-band there. 1942 R. Swanson Rhymes 49 Engine wreckage, empty petrol tins, tools..made a ‘boneyard’ behind the stove. 1962 R. Bradbury Something Wicked this Way Comes xv. 75 It looked like a titanic magnet that had collected to itself, from locomotive boneyards across three continents, drive shafts, flywheels, smoke stacks. 2012 R. W. Lawhn in J. L. Jacobus Inside Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild xxvi. 237 We ate lunch outdoors adjacent to a ‘bone yard’ of wrecked vehicles. 3. The stock of dominoes from which players draw during a game; cf. bone n.¹ 22. ΚΠ 1917 Normal Instructor & Primary Plans May 77/2 Each pupil drew a domino in turn and called the number. If he could spell the word on my list that corresponded to his domino he kept it. If not he returned it to the boneyard. 1951 Portland (Maine) Sunday Telegram 28 Jan. (Mag. section) 6/2 Mother..would remember just what ones I did not have and would send me to the boneyard time after time. 2009 Math Escapades (Reader's Theater) 51 The bones are shuffled by turning them facedown on a table and mixing them. Then players draw or select bones from the boneyard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1820
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