boneyard

[ bohn-yahrd ]

/ ˈboʊnˌyɑrd /

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noun

Slang. a cemetery.

Slang. an area where old or discarded cars, ships, planes, etc., are collected prior to being broken up for scrap or otherwise disposed of.

Also called stock. Dominoes. the bank, consisting of the remaining dominoes after each person has made an initial draw.

a place or area where the bones of wild animals accumulate or are collected.

Origin of boneyard

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; bone + yard²

Words nearby boneyard

bones of digits, bone to pick, bone to pick, have a, bone turquoise, bone up, boneyard, bonfire, bong, bongo, bon gré, mal gré, bonham

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Example sentences from the Web for boneyard

Hawthorne would plainly have seized the romantic essence of the idea and would have avoided the boneyard of ‘problem morality.’
Robert Louis Stevenson|Walter Raleigh
The next step in his career, as he well knew, would be the glue factory and the boneyard.
Horses Nine|Sewell Ford
It was the usual “boneyard” article which had doubtless been set up in the newspaper office years before.
The Case and Exceptions|Frederick Trevor Hill
What had been a flourishing cattle country was a boneyard where the agents of fertilizer factories bargained for skeletons.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands|H. Hagedorn.

Then one day he drove a team of boneyard mules into Blue Dog with a wagonload of stuff that the natives stared at.
Shorty McCabe on the Job|Sewell Ford

British Dictionary definitions for boneyard

boneyard

/ (ˈbəʊnˌjɑːd) /

noun

an informal name for a cemetery

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单词	boneyard
释义	boneyard [ bohn-yahrd ] / ˈboʊnˌyɑrd / SEE SYNONYMS FOR boneyard ON THESAURUS.COM noun Slang. a cemetery. Slang. an area where old or discarded cars, ships, planes, etc., are collected prior to being broken up for scrap or otherwise disposed of. Also called stock. Dominoes. the bank, consisting of the remaining dominoes after each person has made an initial draw. a place or area where the bones of wild animals accumulate or are collected. Origin of boneyard An Americanism dating back to 1850–55; bone + yard² Words nearby boneyard bones of digits, bone to pick, bone to pick, have a, bone turquoise, bone up, boneyard, bonfire, bong, bongo, bon gré, mal gré, bonham Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for boneyard Hawthorne would plainly have seized the romantic essence of the idea and would have avoided the boneyard of ‘problem morality.’ Robert Louis Stevenson\|Walter Raleigh The next step in his career, as he well knew, would be the glue factory and the boneyard. Horses Nine\|Sewell Ford It was the usual “boneyard” article which had doubtless been set up in the newspaper office years before. The Case and Exceptions\|Frederick Trevor Hill What had been a flourishing cattle country was a boneyard where the agents of fertilizer factories bargained for skeletons. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands\|H. Hagedorn. Then one day he drove a team of boneyard mules into Blue Dog with a wagonload of stuff that the natives stared at. Shorty McCabe on the Job\|Sewell Ford British Dictionary definitions for boneyard boneyard / (ˈbəʊnˌjɑːd) / noun an informal name for a cemetery Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to boneyard catacomb, cemetery, charnel house, crypt, garden, grave, graveyard, mortuary, necropolis, ossuary, sepulcher, tomb, vault, boot hill, charnel, churchyard, memorial park, resting place, potter's field
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boneyard

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