boneyard

Plural: boneyards

Noun

• A place where old or discarded items are kept; a junkyard.
• A graveyard.
• In the game of dominoes, the pile of upside-down pieces that have yet to be used.
• A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.
• An area scraped down to the mineral soil, so that smouldering material can be placed there without starting another fire.

Examples

• a 440 V-8 from the boneyard
• After a few bad plays, his tile rack felt like a boneyard of useless letters.
• B-52s in a boneyard

Synonyms

aircraft graveyard, cemetery