bone
/boʊn/ verb C2- To apprehend, steal.
He/she/it bones · Past boned · Past participle boned · -ing form boning
Verb forms
- Base form
- bone
- He/she/it
- bones
- Past
- boned
- Past participle
- boned
- -ing form
- boning
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Cyril Overton, Trinity College, Cambridge, announced the arrival of an enormous young man, sixteen stone of solid bone and muscle, who spanned the doorway with his broad shoulders, and looked from one of us to the other with a comely face which was haggard with anxiety.
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery.
Other matches
- bone A composite material consisting largely of calc... A1
- bone To prepare C2
- bone To sight along an object or set of objects to c... C2
- Bone A Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber aircraft. C2
- bone Used before an adjective as an intensifier C2
- bone Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone. C2
- bone down To have sex with
- bone out To leave
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