Definitions for boneyards

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boneyards bone·yard

Spelling: [bohn-yahrd]

IPA: /ˈboʊnˌyɑrd/

Boneyards is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 741 anagrams from letters in boneyards (abdenorsy).

Definitions for boneyards

noun

1. Slang. a cemetery.
2. Slang. an area where old or discarded cars, ships, planes, etc., are collected prior to being broken up for scrap or otherwise disposed of.
3. Also called stock. Dominoes. the bank, consisting of the remaining dominoes after each person has made an initial draw.
4. a place or area where the bones of wild animals accumulate or are collected.

Origin of boneyards

An Americanism dating back to 1850-55; bone + yard²

Examples for boneyards

Hawthorne would plainly have seized the romantic essence of the idea and would have avoided the boneyard of ‘problem morality.’

He said I'd got a boneyard of some ancient people, and he'd rob graves to find out all about them olden times.

It was the usual “boneyard” article which had doubtless been set up in the newspaper office years before.

Why on earth was Robin worrying her little head over the Mills and talking so absurdly about a boneyard?

It would lift them out of the boneyard of antiquity and put them fifty years ahead of their competitors.

Then one day he drove a team of boneyard mules into Blue Dog with a wagonload of stuff that the natives stared at.

What had been a flourishing cattle country was a boneyard where the agents of fertilizer factories bargained for skeletons.

I've seen 'all-right' men like you hitting the hurry trail for the boneyard before now.

The next step in his career, as he well knew, would be the glue factory and the boneyard.