In butchery, the removal of bones from all or part of a carcass.
1A long, flexible blade for boning meat and filleting or skinning fish.
2Of course, we'll have to do some boning up, but we'll manage.
3A five-inch boning knife, a foot-long scimitar, and a hugely heavy cleaver.
4Bredon was calm and dispassionate as a butcher with a boning knife.
5Poor fellow spent three weeks, days and nights, boning for that exam.
6Using a boning knife, cut into the two joints of the shoulder.
7Really, Prescott, you don't get any further with an excess of boning.
8Knife through the tendons, between the joint, just like boning a chicken.
9However, boning and tying do not by themselves guarantee even cooking.
10Now Christmas day can be spent boning up on your favourite elemental facts.
11I was sitting just aft the foremast, herring-boning a split in a spare jib.
12If the legs and wings are left on, the boning becomes much more difficult.
13He put a boning knife deep into his left hand.
14She had been stabbed with a long, slender boning knife.
15All this boning up on the ancients has paid off for Weller professionally, too.
16There they remained, boning hard until the brief release sounded before taps was due.