In butchery, the removal of bones from all or part of a carcass.
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.
6 During a rare solo tour with a police escort, I walked very quickly along the market street, past a prisoner deboning chicken with a hatchet.
7 I recognized it as the kind of knife you would get in the Wüsthof six-pack of carving knives, the one designated for deboning game birds.
8 Two companies who bought a Tallaght deboning plant are in dispute over the distribution of the proceeds of its sale for £380,000.
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