单词 | boning |
释义 | boningn.1 1. Cookery. The action or process of removing the bones from meat or fish before cooking, serving, or selling. Cf. bone v.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > removing bones boning1495 deboning1913 1495 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1495 §63. m. 34 For bonyng, napyng and packing of a barell fisshe...i. d. 1767 B. Thornton tr. Plautus Amphitryon i. i. in B. Thornton et al. tr. Plautus Comedies II. 28 Why sure he means To bone me like an eel. I wish him further With these his boning tricks.—I'm a dead man, If he should see me now. 1857 N.Y. Herald 19 Nov. 6/2 (advt.) First class cook..understands jellies and creams and boning and larding, and is an excellent pastry cook. 1881 H. Campbell Easiest Way Housek. & Cooking ii. 135 Hold the blade of the knife flat as in boning, and run it slowly between skin and flesh. 1922 Butchers' Advocate 19 July 18/3 We had the opportunity of witnessing in the boning of the fore-shanks a man whose work with the knife was marvelous. 1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) ii. 66/2 EEC legislation stipulates that boning must be carried out in an area separate from the slaughter hall. 2007 Times 10 Mar. (Travel section) 4/2 A seven-night residential programme covers the finer points of boning and filleting. 2. Agriculture. The action or practice of applying chopped, crushed, or ground bones to land as fertilizer. Cf. bone v.1 3b. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] gooding1473 manuring1577 battling1600 fatting1600 fertilage1610 fertilizing1655 laetation1664 mending1707 top-dressing1744 boning1795 caprification1836 manurance1854 management1877 soil amendment1915 side dressing1950 fertigation1967 1795 D. Walker Gen. View Agric. Hertford 74 Were it not for this prudent moderation, there would be an end to boneing, chalking, top dressing, and the other very expensive improvements of the county. 1829 Times 6 Oct. 3/4 A long continuance of experiments..can alone afford a safe ground for conclusion as to the efficacy of boning. 1839 Magnet 14 Jan. 8/6 Even those farmers..have this season commenced a search into the natural gratitude of land well managed, by marling, boning, and, draining. 1875 Agric. Holdings Act xcii. §5 An improvement comprised in following..Boning of land with undissolved bones. 1957 J. Thirsk Eng. Peasant Farming xii. 257 The soil, which..had hitherto been incapable of bearing crops was transformed by chalking, boning, by the planting of turnips, [etc.]. 3. a. The process of stiffening or shaping a garment with strips of whalebone or other material. Cf. bone v.1 3a. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1855 Peterson's Mag. Feb. 170/2 Proceed now to the boning..; then, having covered them with a piece of glazed calico, cut at the bottom of each bone-place, a hole. 1889 Le Follet Apr. 123/1 Among the many details that cannot be achieved by a sewing machine, is the ‘boning of the bodice’. 1911 Table Talk (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 29/1 What really distinguishes the P.D. corset..is..in the manner of boning. 1978 Theatre Crafts Jan. 54/2 The boning of the corset is the most crucial step in creating the silhouette. b. Strips of whalebone or other material (now usually metal or plastic) inserted into the fabric of a garment in order to stiffen or shape it; the structure or support provided by this. Cf. bone n.1 17. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > stiffening > whalebone whalebone1604 boning1891 1891 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 19 Aug. 2/6 The corset for a slim figure needs whalebones only back and front. For a stout figure it needs boning all round. 1898 Ladies' Home Jrnl. May 38/2 She has learned all the uses of Warner's Coraline Boning, which is an education in itself so far as the study of Dress is concerned. 1922 M. A. Souder Notions xi. 85 Bonings of four different materials are found in the Notion Department: Whalebone... Featherbone... Celluloid... Steel. 1954 Cootamundra (New S. Wales) Herald 20 Jan. 2/4 Foundation garments..designed to pander to the feminine weakness for..maximum control with minimum weight and boning. 2014 J. Elliott Wilds 164 Her lush bosom actually heaved, hoisted by the boning of a newfangled corset. 4. slang (originally U.S.). An act of sexual intercourse; an act of penetration with the penis. Also as a mass noun. Cf. later bone v.1 8. ΚΠ 1966 J. J. Phillips Mojo Hand vii. 70 Every time I got in the right mood to do a little boning, she get scared I be going to hurt her..; see, she didn't never have no man before. 1982 National Lampoon Feb. 46 So that's what Gretchen Mendenhall did following a boning by Striggs in a parking lot at the state fair. 2003 Z. Heller Notes on Scandal i. 18 There was nothing wrong with her that a good boning wouldn't cure. 2016 L. Foster Fighting Dirty x. 192 Clearly a good boning has turned her into a pacifist. Compounds C1. General attributive in sense 1, esp. with reference to the boning of meat at an abattoir, as boning hall, boning room, boning table, etc.Recorded earliest in boning knife n. at Compounds 2.In the 19th cent. chiefly Australian and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1718 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected II. vi. 339 The incisions were usually made with glass, a boning knife, or a sharp stone, and not with iron. 1869 Sydney Mail 27 Nov. 10/3 Trucks with beams and hooks take away loads of the carcases along the railway to the door of the boning room. 1919 Cairns (Austral.) Post 13 Mar. 2/3 The boning department, completely revised by the instalment of large new boning tables, is capable of dealing with at least one hundred and sixty bodies daily. 1989 P. McCabe Carn (1993) ix. 130 Beeny became very friendly with one of the northmen, having spent a fortnight with him in the boning-hall. 1991 Afr. Affairs Oct. 554 In addition to a slaughterhouse and boning facility, the project called for the construction of fencing to enclose the cattle prepared for slaughter. 2014 ABC Regional Newswire (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Nov. Not only will we be slaughtering but we'll be doing a boning process as well. C2. boning knife n. a knife with a sharp, narrow blade, used for boning meat, fish, etc. ΚΠ 1718 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected II. vi. 339 The incisions were usually made with glass, a boning knife, or a sharp stone, and not with iron. 1888 Boston Daily Globe 15 Mar. 6/5 Regular boning knives are long and slender, very thin and sharp. 2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 1 Oct. d3/1 The first technique is butterflying... A boning knife would be perfect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). boningn.2α. 1700s– boning. β. 1800s– borning, 1800s bourning. Surveying, Building, etc. The process of establishing a level line or smooth gradient, typically by looking along the tops of a row of posts or T-shaped rods placed some distance apart. Chiefly attributive, esp. in boning rod (cf. ranging rod n. at ranging n.1 Compounds). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > specific methods or processes dialling1670 traverse1674 boning1718 levelling1812 triangulation1818 resection1855 plane-tabling1867 stepping1888 tacheometry1888 tachymetry1891 trilateration1948 1718 S. Switzer Ichnographia Rustica II. 117 The next are what we call Boning or Levelling Staves. 1785 W. Roy in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 411 Twenty-four boning rods had been originally provided. 1795 Trigon. Surv. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 477 Using the transit as a boning telescope. 1800 W. Nicolay in tr. K. A. von Struensee First Princ. Field-fortification i. ii. 56 (note) A long picket is then placed at the extremity b of the line to be levelled... This operation is called boning. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. p. xxix. To determine the level of the top of the base-pieces, boning sticks were placed in the lines of the columns. 1909 Brit. Patent 25,224/1908 1 (heading) New appliance to be used in ‘boning’ or laying drain or other pipes to a desired fall or gradient. 1944 D. E. Warland Teach yourself Constructional Details i. 7 For long lengths of pipe, boning rods on a larger scale may be used. 2002 R. D. Treloar Plumbing: Heating & Gas Installations (ed. 2) vii. 306 Where a long drainage run is to be installed, the method used to determine the fall should be carried out using sight rails and traveller (sometimes called a boning rod). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11495n.21718 |
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