"boning" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbəʊnɪŋ/ [UK], /ˈboʊnɪŋ/ [US] Audio: En-au-boning.ogg Forms: bonings [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} boning (plural bonings)
  1. The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.
    Sense id: en-boning-en-noun-pTeYTaY-
  2. The arrangement of bones in a corset.
    Sense id: en-boning-en-noun-LYzZDy~W
  3. (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse. Tags: slang, vulgar
    Sense id: en-boning-en-noun--7sA6NNT
  4. Bone structure.
    Sense id: en-boning-en-noun-x-hH1yii Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 2 1 38 21 19 16 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 2 2 3 38 20 18 16 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 1 2 40 21 19 16 0
  5. The fertilization of a field with bone meal.
    Sense id: en-boning-en-noun-7qImB9Bg
  6. The process or result of leveling using a boning rod.
    Sense id: en-boning-en-noun-ubln4nh4
  7. Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.
    Sense id: en-boning-en-noun-sJTZllJ0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: boning knife

Verb

IPA: /ˈbəʊnɪŋ/ [UK], /ˈboʊnɪŋ/ [US] Audio: En-au-boning.ogg
Rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} boning
  1. present participle and gerund of bone Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: bone
    Sense id: en-boning-en-verb-9clRp3VH

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2012, Bronwyn Scott, How to Disgrace a Lady, →ISBN, page 95:",
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          "ref": "1991, Dieter Arnold, Building in Egypt: Pharaonic Stone Masonry, →ISBN, page 256:",
          "text": "This kind of boning would probably have been done crosswise over all four corners.",
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          "ref": "2004, Peter G. Toohey, Peter M. Toohey, Melancholy, Love, and Time: Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature, →ISBN, page 139:",
          "text": "As I say, Stagirius's symptons may well resemble those of an Aboriginal victim of boning.",
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          "ref": "2018, Arthur W. Upfield, The Bone is Pointed, →ISBN:",
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          "text": "She had a perfect nose, narrow and faintly sloped at the end to give it character. It fit the delicate boning of her face, the slightly raised cheekbones one could only fully appreciate in profile, the generous mouth.",
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          "text": "This is a breed that's a medium size with a short, cobby body and heavy boning.",
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          "text": "The soil, which was often only a few inches deep, and had hitherto been incapable of bearing crops was transformed by chalking, boning, by the planting of turnips, which, when eaten off by sheep, returned a rich manure to the ground, and by the use of oil cake for sheep feeding which enriched the land still further.",
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