BOONE

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• BOONE (noun)
  The noun BOONE has 1 sense:

1. an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820)

  Familiarity information: BOONE used as a noun is very rare.

• BOONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Boone; Daniel Boone

Instance hypernyms:

backwoodsman; frontiersman; mountain man (a man who lives on the frontier)

 Context examples 

“If the police are to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before been anything against him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Suppose that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which is familiar to every man who goes much to the City.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I called about that beggarman, Boone—the one who was charged with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Lee.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There the matter stands at present, and the questions which have to be solved—what Neville St. Clair was doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance—are all as far from a solution as ever.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One mistake had been made in not arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes during which he might have communicated with his friend the Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and searched, without anything being found which could incriminate him.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His defence was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he could not account in any way for the presence of the missing gentleman’s clothes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)