Talk:boning

Hay wrote to Robert [Todd Lincoln] on April 12, 1888, "as long as you and I live I take if for granted that you will not suspect me of boning [seizing] 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." 

William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay (1915; reprint, New York: Kraus, 1969), 2: 44 and 2: 37 Rklawton 01:25, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2018–January 2019
Act of being hit with a bone. Citation suggests a Simpsons nonce word. Equinox ◑ 13:54, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * And, apart from being a nonce word from a fictional universe, this was clearly meant to be analogous to, so the passive-only sense of the definition is misguided. --Lambiam 18:09, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * A search for "act of being" would seem likely to yield quite a few entries with definitions that need challenge or rewording. DCDuring (talk) 18:46, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
 * That search yielded 96 entries. IMO "Being X" or "The state of being X" are good substitutes for "The act of being X" at the very least where X is an adjective and probably where X is a past participle. DCDuring (talk) 18:50, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

I have added two cites to the citations page. One is for a different sense entirely (meat taken from the bone), but is a missing sense. The other does not exactly meet this definition, but comes close, as it represents an attack with a bone. It we find a third attack with a bone cite, I would suggest broadening the definition. Kiwima (talk) 20:44, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I found another use of boning as an attack, but it matches the other one too precisely, so I am dubious about lumping them in with the Simpson's quote. It is apparently some form of Australian aboriginal magical attack. Kiwima (talk) 21:57, 2 January 2019 (UTC)
 * See point the bone Chuck Entz (talk) 05:09, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 21:37, 30 January 2019 (UTC)