Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cemetery.
  • noun A place where the bones of wild animals accumulate.
  • noun A place where refuse, especially discarded cars, accumulates or is kept.

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  • noun informal A graveyard.
  • noun games In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down, as-yet-unused pieces.

Etymologies

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bone + yard

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Examples

  • “This is what we call the boneyard,” Jorge said pleasantly.

    House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002

  • “This is what we call the boneyard,” Jorge said pleasantly.

    House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002

  • Her father takes Claire to practice in the Mexican Catholic cemetery, a ratty sandpile decorated with faded plastic flowers and clacking pinwheels, colorful santos and candles, a place her father calls the boneyard.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Her father takes Claire to practice in the Mexican Catholic cemetery, a ratty sandpile decorated with faded plastic flowers and clacking pinwheels, colorful santos and candles, a place her father calls the boneyard.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Her father takes Claire to practice in the Mexican Catholic cemetery, a ratty sandpile decorated with faded plastic flowers and clacking pinwheels, colorful santos and candles, a place her father calls the boneyard.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Digs have been going on around the so-called boneyard field for the last 15 years.

    EDP24 News 2010

  • Digs have been going on around the so-called boneyard field for the last 15 years.

    EDP24 News 2010

  • It had been dubbed the boneyard by local surfers after the storm because of a tendency to sustain cuts and bruises when wading through, said Lynn Yates, Surfside Local Surfers Alliance president.

    The Facts: News 2009

  • For the part of the inventory that most urgently needs immediate expansion, the A-10 and the close support mission, hundreds of airframes now sitting in the "boneyard" can and should be refurbished -- at extraordinarily modest cost.

    Winslow T. Wheeler: What Now, Icarus? Is Western Combat Aviation Falling Out of the Sky? 2009

  • At the Historic Aerials website, you can find images of the aircraft "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan AFB in 1958.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

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