boneyard (bonyard)

1. A knacker's yard. -2. A graveyard. [Slang.] -3. In the game of dominoes, the pieces reserved to draw from. bonfire (bon'fir), n. [Early mod. E. boonfire, bond fire, bounfire, later burn fire, but reg. bon fire or bone fire, Sc. banefire; Ring ye the bels, to make it weare away, And bone fiers make all day. Spenser, Epithalamion, 1. 275. The Citizens and Subjects of Bohemia,... ioyfull that there was an Heyre apparant to the King do me, made Bone fires and shewes throughout all the Cittie. Greene, Pandosto. There was however order given for bonfires and bells; but God knows it was rather a deliverance than a triumph. Evelyn , Diary, June 6, 1666.