bone

bone

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.
   • 1949, Kenneth Lewis Roberts, I Wanted to Write, page 44,

     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.

   • 1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique, page 73,

     The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, boned and rolled, but not stuffed.

   • 2009, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food, page 379,

     Then it is boned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.

   • 2011, Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmongers Apprentice, page 38,

     Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.

2. To furnish with bone.
   • 1859 July 9, The Economist, page 758,

     He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”

3. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

   boning rod

4. (vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

   So, did you bone her?

5. (Australian, dated) (in Aboriginal culture) To perform ""bone pointing"", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
   • 1962, Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page 48.

     ""You dont know!"", Bony echoed. ""You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you cant tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater"".

6. (usually with ""up"") To study.

   bone up

   • 1896, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwells Chums

     ""I know it. You do not study."" ""Whats the use of boning all the time! I wasnt cut out for it.""

7. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
   • circa 1980, F. van Zyl, SADF National Service (1979-1980)

     ""...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits""

bone (countable and uncountable; plural bones)

1. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone
4. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
5. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

   bone colour:

6. (US, informal) A dollar.
7. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
8. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
9. (slang) shortened form of trombone

bone (not comparable)

1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

bone

1. well, OK

	osso
	material
	component of a skeleton
	Parte degli elementi dello scheletro, composti da ossa.
	Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
	Materiale composto consistentemente in larga parte da fosfato di calcio e collagene e che forma lo scheletro della maggior parte dei vertebrati.
	A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

	disossare
	to remove bones
	Rimuovere le ossa da qualcosa.
	To remove the bones from.

	fottere
	slang: have sexual intercourse with

	osseo
	colour

	scopare
	slang: have sexual intercourse with

	scannarsi
	Studiare molto intensamente, come prima di un esame.
	To study intensively, as before an exam.

lisca

magro

ossa

ossatura

osso ossa

ossu

scheletro

spina

spinare

togliere le lische

Altri significati:

To polish boots to a shiny finish

(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

(slang) shortened form of trombone

One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.

(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

corset part

fishbone

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

(vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

To remove the fishbones from.

(slang) Dominoes or dice.

(Australian, dated) (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing

(informal) Said of something that is rubbish or broken.

An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

A bone of a fish; a fishbone

(US, informal) A dollar.

bone colour:

To study (see also bone up)

(slang) An erect penis; a boner.

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

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