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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Examples
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“This is what we call the boneyard,” Jorge said pleasantly.
House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002
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“This is what we call the boneyard,” Jorge said pleasantly.
House Of The Scorpion Nancy Farmer 2002
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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
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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
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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
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Digs have been going on around the so-called boneyard field for the last 15 years.
EDP24 News 2010
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Digs have been going on around the so-called boneyard field for the last 15 years.
EDP24 News 2010
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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
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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
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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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