boneyard

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bone·yard

 (bōn′yärd′)
n.
1. A cemetery.
2. A place where the bones of wild animals accumulate.
3. A place where refuse, especially discarded cars, accumulates or is kept.
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boneyard

(ˈbəʊnˌjɑːd)
n
an informal name for a cemetery
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bone•yard

(ˈboʊnˌyɑrd)

n.
1. a cemetery.
2. a place where the bones of wild animals accumulate.
3. a place where old or discarded cars, etc., are collected before being disposed of.
[1850–55, Amer.]
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Walker is famous for monstrous and delicate, often near-life-size black-paper silhouettes, assembled from the boneyard of southern gothic--a pigtail here, an apron there, a bared breast, a hoop-skirt, a broad-brimmed hat, a penis.
The use of modular conveyor systems can maximize ROI by reducing or even eliminating the conveyor boneyard, where no longer usable standard conveyors gather dust or rust.
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Dinoland USA includes The Boneyard - where you can excavate remains of dinosaurs - and the Countdown to Extinction ride, which takes you 65 million years back in time for a thrilling adventure to save the last dinosaur.
First at twilight in the cow boneyard. Then next morning beside the birthing pen.
The tomb is within the 1.4-hectare boneyard at the western edge of the American and Filipino Veterans Masonic Memorial Park on Madapo Hills here.
On Saturday, Boneyard Band starts things off from 4 to 6 p.m., Petty Kings takes over from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
After 42 years of service, the P-3C designated as aircraft 916 took its final flight March 27 with the "Golden Eagles" of Patrol Squadron (VP) 9 from their home station in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, over the Pacific to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (309 AMARG) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, also known as "The Boneyard."
After the ceremony, the aircraft were flown to the Air Force "boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.
Strapping on a guitar, he rattled through a thrilling version of Boneyard before launching into a cover of Skynyrd's Freebird.
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