My version of that all-time favourite, turkey, is much easier to carve with all the bones removed.

It occurred to me only recently that one can get a delicious, relatively quick-cooking form of brisket from a breast of veal with the bones removed.

The bones of the monarchs removed to the cathedral are now housed in the famous mortuary chests around the choir.

With the bone removed, it is called "Scotch fillet".

The quail recipe calls for semiboneless, with the bones of the body cavity removed.

Serve each person a leg, with the bones, and half of a breast, bones removed.

Boned quail (with all but the tiny leg and wing bones removed) are easiest to grill and eat.

It is Romanticism with the prickly bones removed, Realism with fabric softener added.

The bodies consigned to the shared grave that their homes had become were simply left to rot, and the bones only removed much later.

Because of limited burial space, graves were sometimes dug up and the bones removed to a charnel house.