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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 early American times, from the 1600s to early 1700s, as towns were settled, two things were usually established first: The meetinghouse and the graveyard, or boneyard, as it was then called.
He said he spoke with an instructor pilot who delivered a T-37 to the aircraft boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.
The Boneyard visit and a subsequent architectural bus tour are for a documentary on the architects whose famous 1968 study of Las Vegas launched an influential way of architectural thinking by observing what the people want, rather than what the architect dictates.
 
 
 
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