a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor,Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie."[1], London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original byLanfranc of Milan, published1894,→ISBN, page63:
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þeboon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
One of the fish stalls specialized inboning shad, and he who has never eaten aboned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
1977, Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon,The New Larousse Gastronomique[3], page73:
The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which isboned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat,boned and rolled, but not stuffed.
2009, Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat,A History of Food[4], page379:
Then it isboned; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.
2011, Aliza Green, Steve Legato,The Fishmonger's Apprentice[5], page38:
Other fish suited toboning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.
We were sitting in the student union between classes, and I had just been trying to decide which one of them I was gonnabone first that night.
2006, “Sick of it all”, in Masta Ace (lyrics),Pariah:
[…]These cats stay rapping about cars they don't own / I am sick of rappers bragging about models they don'tbone
2007, Stacey Deddo,The Elimination Special, Part II: The Elimination (Drawn Together), season 3, episode14, spoken by The Jew Producer (James Arnold Taylor), via Comedy Central:
When we return we'll find out which one of our six remaining contestants' dreams will be totally ruined, like your mom's reputation after Ibone her face.
2007,Reno Mounties (Reno 911!), season 4, episode11, spoken by Deputy Cherisha Kimball (Mary Birdsong), via Comedy Central:
I swear on the good book that if you pull through, I willbone Travis Junior.
2012, Gavin McInnes,The Death of Cool: From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood, Simon and Schuster,→ISBN,page89:
I'd beenboning French chicks for a while now and was always shocked to see how many able-bodied young white women had no qualms about being on welfare.
1962, Arthur Upfield,The Will of the Tribe, Collier Books, page48:
“You don’t know!”, Bony echoed. “You can tell me whoboned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can’t tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater”.
“Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you hadboned, and who you hadboned it from.”
1915, William Roscoe Thayer,The Life and Letters of John Hay:
[…]as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me ofboning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.
1936, J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Root of the Boot”, inSongs for the Philologists:
But troll's old seat is much the same, And the bone heboned from its owner
1942, Rebecca West,Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published2006, page802:
Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants tobone everybody else's loaf.
Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “BÔNE”, inMittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
