In butchery, the removal of bones from all or part of a carcass.
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Examples for "deboning "
Examples for "deboning "
1 She put the Xerox page on the kitchen table and turned back to deboning a chicken.
2 JBS said the jobs are for slaughtering and deboning beef, poultry and pork in 16 Brazilian states.
3 She was deboning pigeons early that afternoon when John came storming into the kitchen, pushing a half dozen bald boylings before him.
4 The Shu'garath squatted at the end of the pier, pulling apart pieces of meat strung together with copper wire, as if deboning a fish.
5 The company is to invest £1.3 million in lamb deboning and packaging facilities at its plant in Camolin, Co Wexford.
1 A long, flexible blade for boning meat and filleting or skinning fish.
2 Of course, we'll have to do some boning up, but we'll manage.
3 A five-inch boning knife, a foot-long scimitar, and a hugely heavy cleaver.
4 Bredon was calm and dispassionate as a butcher with a boning knife.
5 Poor fellow spent three weeks, days and nights, boning for that exam.
6 Using a boning knife, cut into the two joints of the shoulder.
7 Really, Prescott, you don't get any further with an excess of boning .
8 Knife through the tendons, between the joint, just like boning a chicken.
9 However, boning and tying do not by themselves guarantee even cooking.
10 Now Christmas day can be spent boning up on your favourite elemental facts.
11 I was sitting just aft the foremast, herring - boning a split in a spare jib.
12 If the legs and wings are left on, the boning becomes much more difficult.
13 He put a boning knife deep into his left hand.
14 She had been stabbed with a long, slender boning knife.
15 All this boning up on the ancients has paid off for Weller professionally, too.
16 There they remained, boning hard until the brief release sounded before taps was due.
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