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▪ I. boning, vbl. n.1|ˈbəʊnɪŋ|
[f. bone v. + -ing1.]
1. The removing of bones from meat, fish, etc.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, xxiii, For bonyng napyng and packing of a barell fisshe, jd. 1884Girl's Own Paper June 491/3 Boning meat and poultry.
2. The applying of bones to land as manure.
1875Agric. Holdings Act xcii. §5 An improvement comprised in following..Boning of land with undissolved bones.
▪ II. boning, vbl. n.2 Surveying, Building, etc.|ˈbəʊnɪŋ|
The process of levelling or of judging of the straightness of a surface or line by the eye, as by looking along the tops of two straight edges or along a line of poles placed some distance apart; also attrib., as in boning rod, boning stick, boning telescope.
1785Roy Survey. in Phil. Trans. LXXV. 411 Twenty-four boning rods had been originally provided. 1795Trigon. Surv. ibid. LXXXV. 477 Using the transit as a boning telescope. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 581 Joiners try up their work by boning with two straight-edges, which determine whether..the surface be twisted or a plane. 1877Peacock N.W. Linc. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Boning-stick, a simple instrument used for setting out the depth of drains or other cuttings in the soil. 1886Blackw. Mag. Sept. 326/1 Spirit level, boning rod and telescope. |