boned

Verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
   • One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write, page 44

   Synonyms:

   debone, unbone

2. To fertilize with bone.
   • He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”1859 July 9, The Economist, page 758
3. To put whalebone into.
   • Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.1871, Figure-Training
4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
   • boning rod
5. (ambitransitive, slang, usually, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse (with).
   • O Memmius, well and slowly did you bone me, supine, day by day, with the whole of that beam.1894, Catullus, translated by Leonard C. Smithers, The Carmina of Gaius Valerius Catullus, section 58

   Synonyms:

   approach, cohabit, common, company, copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh, have intimate relations, have marital relations

6. (Australia, dated) To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
   • “You don’t know!”, Bony echoed. “You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can’t tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater”.1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48

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