2syllables
boning
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Definitions ofboning
1verb
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To put whalebone into.
Example: "to bone stays"
- To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
Example: "boning rod"
- (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
- (usually with "up") To study.
Example: "bone up"
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
1verb
- To apprehend, steal.
1verb
- To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
1noun
- The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
- The arrangement of bones in a corset.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- Bone structure.
- The fertilization of a field with bone meal.
- The process or result of leveling using a boning rod.
- Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.
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