Definitions for boneyard

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boneyard bone·yard

Spelling: [bohn-yahrd]

IPA: /ˈboʊnˌyɑrd/

Boneyard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 415 anagrams from letters in boneyard (abdenory).

Definitions for boneyard

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 boneyard

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

Examples for boneyard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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