BONE
/bəʉn/
6
Scrabble
8
WWF
B(3) O(1) N(1) E(1)
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Definition
/bəʉn/
noun
- A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- A bonefish
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
verb
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To put whalebone into.“to bone stays”
- To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.“boning rod”
- (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
adjective
- Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Source: Wiktionary
