[f. BONE v. + -ING1.]
1. The removing of bones from meat, fish, etc.
1495. Act 11 Hen. VII., xxiii. For bonyng napyng and packing of a barell fisshe, jd.
1884. Girls Own Paper, June, 491/3. Boning meat and poultry.
2. The applying of bones to land as manure.
1875. Agric. Holdings Act, xcii. § 5. An improvement comprised in following Boning of land with undissolved bones.