BONED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does boned mean? 

• BONED (adjective)
  The adjective BONED has 2 senses:

1. having had the bones removed

2. having bones as specified

  Familiarity information: BONED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having had the bones removed

Synonyms:

boned; deboned

Context example:

a boned (or deboned) fish

Similar:

boneless (being without a bone or bones)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having bones as specified

Context example:

his lanky long-boned body

Similar:

boney; bony (having bones especially many or prominent bones)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

 Context examples 

He was a raw-boned, swarthy-cheeked man, with black bristling beard and a swaggering bearing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His hard, high-boned face, large piercing eyes, and immense physique made him a fitting leader for that rough and tumultuous body who had named him as their commander-in-chief.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is a well-muscled dog that is medium to heavy boned.

(Nova Scotia Duck-Tolling Retriever, NCI Thesaurus)

It has a short, strong, sturdy body with strongly boned legs and a fox-like muzzle.

(Norwich Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

The medium-boned dog is muscular, but not bulky.

(Kuvasz, NCI Thesaurus)

It has a broad square head, with short, straight and strong-boned limbs.

(Clumber Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

It has a short, strong, sturdy body with strongly boned legs and a fox-like muzzle with large solid teeth.

(Norfolk Terrier, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr. Chillip was married again to a tall, raw-boned, high-nosed wife; and they had a weazen little baby, with a heavy head that it couldn't hold up, and two weak staring eyes, with which it seemed to be always wondering why it had ever been born.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His servant, as tall as himself, but gaunt and raw-boned, had swung the bales on the back of one mule, while the merchant mounted upon the other and rode to join the party.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Looking round, the wayfarers saw a gaunt, big-boned man, with sunken cheeks and a sallow face, who had come up behind them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)