burying-ground

See also: burying ground

English

Noun

burying-ground (plural burying-grounds)

1. Alternative form of burying ground.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, “The memoirs of a lady of quality”, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:

     [H]is lordſhip had changed his mind about going to Flanders, but expected to meet him, on ſuch a day and hour, in the burying-ground near Red-lion-ſquare.

   • 1864, “July 24. [Mint, Savoy, and May-Fair Marriages.]”, in R[obert] Chambers, editor, The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, […], volume II, London, Edinburgh: W[illiam] & R[obert] Chambers, →OCLC, page 120, column 2:

     When the marriage act was mooted, Keith swore that he would revenge himself upon the bishops, by taking some acres of land for a burying-ground, and underburying them all.

   • 1926, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter XXIV, in The Blue Castle: […], New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC, page 177:

     She would have covered Cissy over with flowers, shut her away from prying eyes, and buried her beside her nameless little baby in the grassy burying-ground under the pines of the “up back” church, with a bit of kindly prayer from the old Free Methodist minister.