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Burying ground

Burying ground \Bur"y*ing ground`\, Burying place \Bur"y*ing place\ . The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

WordNet
burying ground

n. a tract of land used for burials [syn: cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, memorial park, necropolis]

Usage examples of "burying ground".

As a result, I did not start out for the Burying Ground until almost ten o’.

In a gesture that had something of embarrassment in it and something of irritation, he threw his stick as hard as he could, and it whop-whop-whop'd through the air, landing against the sagging fence that separated the burying ground from the donkey meadow.

The burying ground was on a hill east of the settlement, but it seemed more fitting to those who took Birribat's body that a One Who should be buried near a temple, even a ruined temple.

Attendants were grouped about in tense curiosity, eager to aid our memory by telling us how we came there, and we soon heard of the farmer who had found us at noon in a lonely field beyond Meadow Hill, a mile from the old burying ground, on a spot where an ancient slaughterhouse is reputed to have stood.

Nepemiah Derby, obit 1719, from the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem.

Well, if it came down to it, a tramp round every kirkyard and burying ground in the general vicinity of Broch Tuarach was likely the best he could do in the short term.

That night a party of ten visited the old North Burying Ground opposite Herrenden's Lane and opened a grave.