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." [1]

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

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boning

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 stoning, 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)