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1. Meaning 1 · noun

   A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

2. Meaning 2 · noun

   Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

3. Meaning 3 · noun

   A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

4. Meaning 4 · noun

   A bonefish

5. Meaning 5 · noun

   One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

6. Meaning 6 · noun

   One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

7. Meaning 7 · noun

   Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

8. Meaning 8 · noun

   The framework of anything.

9. Meaning 9 · noun

   An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

10. Meaning 10 · noun

    A dollar.

11. Meaning 11 · noun

    The wishbone formation.

12. Meaning 12 · noun

    An erect penis; a boner.

13. Meaning 13 · noun

    (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

14. Meaning 14 · verb

    To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

15. Meaning 15 · verb

    To fertilize with bone.

16. Meaning 16 · verb

    To put whalebone into.

    “to bone stays”

17. Meaning 17 · verb

    To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

    “boning rod”

18. Meaning 18 · verb

    (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

19. Meaning 19 · verb

    (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

20. Meaning 20 · verb

    (usually with "up") To study.

    “bone up”

21. Meaning 21 · verb

    To polish boots to a shiny finish.

22. Meaning 22 · adjective

    Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

How this word is used

• General “to bone stays”
• General “boning rod”
• General “bone up”

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