Crossword clues for boning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bone \Bone\ (b[=o]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boned (b[=o]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Boning.]
To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. ``To bone a turkey.''
--Soyer.To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
--Ash.To fertilize with bone.
To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]
Boning \Bon"ing\, n. [Senses 1 and 2 fr. 1st Bone, sense 3 fr. 3d Bone.]
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The removal of bones from fish etc; filleting. 2 The arrangement of bones in a corset. vb. (present participle of bone English)
Usage examples of "boning".
Picking up his knife, he moved silently but swiftly from the boning room out into the kill floor.
The stranger was coming into the boning room as Carlos had anticipated.
By looking beneath the boning tables he saw the tattooed man pursuing him.
He tossed aside the plastic container and sprinted the length of the main boning room.
An equal number of employees came from the main boning room via the head-boning room.
He reached out for the envelope, and Keller pushed into the room, boning knife in hand, and drove the blade in beneath the lower ribs, angling upward toward the heart.
I have it on my coffee table, along with the boning knife and the vic’s watch and wallet.
Several boning knives lay beside her on the chopping block, and I flicked a glance at them.
Taá's head flew back, bits of blood and bone spattering the butcher who without hesitating picked up a boning knife and lunged at Meg.
I tripped her, but she partially recovered and starting swinging the boning knife like a scythe at Meg's leg until Meg reached down and shot her in the chest.