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boneyard

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bone·yard  (bnyärd)
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.

boneyard [ˈbəʊnˌjɑːd]
n
an informal name for a cemetery


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In some cases, the conveyor boneyard is said to be growing faster than the business.
One day, Fell and Hall came across one of the few boneyards open to the public.
Boneyard, 1990, is a scatter piece in which the ghostly white casts of some 750 telephone receivers, powerless to communicate, make up a kind of silent elephants' graveyard; and an untitled work from 1989 features a receiver bound together with adhesive tape, the ear-and mouthpiece twisted in opposite directions so as to render conversation impossible.
 
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