Boneyards

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boneyard n. 1. A cemetery; quite literally, a yard of bones. 2. A hospital or nursing home. 3. A school. 4. A strip mall or apartment complex; a neighborhood. 5. A human being, particularly in reference to potentialities. 6. A type of sailor's knot originating in Nova Scotia. 7. A cityscape dominated skyscrapers.

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Steven Vogeler's Associationalist Composition No.1 feautures a passage referred to as brought up in a boneyard.
A short-story by Alfred Bester, By Leaps and Bounds, features a character named Winthrop Boneyard who can teleport himself for a maximum distance of 3.14 "neo-meters."

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