[f. BONE v. + -ING1.]

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  1.  The removing of bones from meat, fish, etc.

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1495.  Act 11 Hen. VII., xxiii. For bonyng napyng and packing of a barell fisshe, jd.

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1884.  Girl’s Own Paper, June, 491/3. Boning meat and poultry.

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  2.  The applying of bones to land as manure.

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1875.  Agric. Holdings Act, xcii. § 5. An improvement comprised in following … Boning of land with undissolved bones.

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