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a piece of land used for burying the dead
- a once-notorious gunslinger who now lies in the forlorn boneyard of an Old West ghost town
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11 Interesting and Ancient Burial Words
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“Boneyard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boneyard. Accessed 23 Sep. 2020.
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The first known use of boneyard was in 1839
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