The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting. / The arrangement of bones in a corset. / (slang, vulgar) An act of sexual intercourse. / Bone structure. / The fertilization of a field with bone meal.

present participle of bone

plural of boning

(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.

(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

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

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. / To fertilize with bone. / To put whalebone into. / (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

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

(slang) Clipping of trombone.

plural of bone