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noun

Boning n.

The clearing of bones from fish or meat.

The manuring of land with bones.

A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.

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Etymology of 'Boning'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Boning" Quotes from Famous Books

... everything," answered Dave. "I want to graduate with the highest possible honors, and that means plenty of hard boning." ...

— Dave Porter and the Runaways - Last Days at Oak Hall • Edward Stratemeyer

... fowl: take off the head and legs, and remove the tendons. When a fowl is to be boned it is not drawn. The work of boning is not difficult, but it requires practice. The skin must not be broken. Use a small pointed knife cut the skin down the full length of the back; then, beginning at the neck, carefully scrape the meat away from the bone, keeping the knife close to the bone. When the joints of ...

— The Italian Cook Book - The Art of Eating Well • Maria Gentile

... doings as those This account of her merits must come to a close; No!—examine her conduct more closely, you'll find She by no means neglected improving her mind; For there all the while with an air quite bewitching She sat herring-boning, tambouring, or stitching, Or having an eye to affairs of the kitchen. Close by her side, Sat her kinsman, MacBride— Captain Dugald MacBride, Royal Scots Fusiliers;— And I doubt if you'd find, in the whole of his clan, A more highly intelligent, worthy young man; And there he'd ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various