Synonyms for boneyard
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bohn-yahrd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈboʊnˌyɑrd |
Top 10 synonyms for boneyard
Définition of boneyard
- noun burial ground
- It was the usual “boneyard” article which had doubtless been set up in the newspaper office years before.
- Extract from : « The Case and Exceptions » by Frederick Trevor Hill
- What had been a flourishing cattle country was a boneyard where the agents of fertilizer factories bargained for skeletons.
- Extract from : « Roosevelt in the Bad Lands » by H. Hagedorn.
- He said I'd got a boneyard of some ancient people, and he'd rob graves to find out all about them olden times.
- Extract from : « A Man in the Open » by Roger Pocock
- It would lift them out of the boneyard of antiquity and put them fifty years ahead of their competitors.
- Extract from : « Red-Robin » by Jane Abbott
- Why on earth was Robin worrying her little head over the Mills and talking so absurdly about a boneyard?
- Extract from : « Red-Robin » by Jane Abbott
- I've seen 'all-right' men like you hitting the hurry trail for the boneyard before now.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- Hawthorne would plainly have seized the romantic essence of the idea and would have avoided the boneyard of ‘problem morality.’
- Extract from : « Robert Louis Stevenson » by Walter Raleigh
- Then one day he drove a team of boneyard mules into Blue Dog with a wagonload of stuff that the natives stared at.
- Extract from : « Shorty McCabe on the Job » by Sewell Ford
- The next step in his career, as he well knew, would be the glue factory and the boneyard.
- Extract from : « Horses Nine » by Sewell Ford
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