"burying-ground" meaning in English

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          "text": "[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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.",
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