bone

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.

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

Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.

boning rod

We're bonin' on the dark blocks / Wearin' out the shocks, wettin' up the dashboard clock

"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".

bone up

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

Dix Handley: Don't bone me!

Cobby: Now look, I'm not boning you, Dix—

Dix: Did I ever welsh?

Cobby: Nobody said you did—

Dix: You just boned me!