boneyard

[ bohn-yahrd ]

/ ˈboʊnˌyɑrd /

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

boner, bones of digits, boneset, bonesetter, boneshaker, boneyard, bonfire, bong, bongo, bonham, bonheur

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

boneyard

/ (ˈbəʊnˌjɑːd) /

an informal name for a cemetery