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deboning

deboning is the present participle and gerund of debone.

Meaning of debone

Verb

debone (third-person singular simple present debones, present participle deboning, simple past and past participle deboned)

  1. (ambitransitive) To remove the bones from.
    • I am deboning a fish.
    Synonyms:
    bone, unbone

Noun

deboning (uncountable)

  1. The removal of bones.
    • Deboning is performed with a special hand-held cutting tool – boning knives, designed for certain technological operations (for example, separating ribs from meat). At the enterprises of the meat processing industry, mechanized deboning is usually used, using vehicles for moving carcasses, circular...2021 August 29, “Deboning of meat”, in Meat Industry, United States, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025
    • To be more concrete, Mayekawa says the robot can debone about 1,500 chicken breasts in one hour, theoretically replacing ten human workers. The key factor here is an advanced image recognition function, which makes it possible to make accurate cuts: at the end of the deboning process, all that’s...2011 June 15, Serkan Toto, “Video: Super-efficient Chicken Breast Deboning Robot”, in TechCrunch, United States, archived from the original on 09 Sep 2025

Questions about deboning

What does deboning mean?
Deboning means the removal of bones.
What is deboning the present participle and gerund of?
Deboning is the present participle and gerund of debone.
What part of speech is deboning?
Deboning is a noun.

Words near deboning in the dictionary

  1. debone
  2. deboned
  3. deboner
  4. deboners
  5. debones
  6. deboning
  7. DeBonis
  8. DeBonises
  9. debonnaire
  10. Debono
  11. Debonos

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