Dictionary of Thieving Slang, 1737
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To BONE
To BONE, to apprehend, sieze, take or arrest. I'll Bone ye; I'll cause you to be arrested. We shall be Boned, we shall be apprehended for the Robbery. The Cove is Boned and gone to the Whit; the Rogue is taken up and carried to Newgate. The Cull has Boned the Fen (for Fence) or Bloss that bit the Blow, The Man has taken the Thief that robbed his House or Shop, or picked his Pocket. If he be Boned he must shove the Tumbler; If he be taken he'll be whipt at the Gart's-tail. I have Boned her Dudds, Fagged and Brushed; I have taken away my Mistress's cloaths, beat her and am trooped off. Boning the Fence; Finding the Goods where concealed and siezing them. He made no Bones of it.
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