boning knife

American  

noun

1. a small kitchen knife having a narrow blade for boning meat or fish.

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Example Sentences

You don't want a boning knife or a knife with a curved blade because you want to have as much contact as possible with your board in order to get the job done.

From Salon • May 31, 2022

With Leslie in the hospital, George now oversees a free-range brood of bright, curious, physically brave kids who are as comfortable with a boning knife as they are reading “Middlemarch” while wearing a gas mask.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2016

If you do not have the large needle, make the holes with the boning knife or the carving steel, and press the pork through with the fingers.

From Miss Parloa's New Cook Book by Parloa, Maria

Remove carefully from the broiler, using a sharp boning knife to free it from adhesions.

From American Cookery November, 1921 by Hill, Janet McKenzie

Use a French boning knife, five inches in length and sharp at the point.

From Clayton's Quaker Cook-Book Being a Practical Treatise on the Culinary Art Adapted to the Tastes and Wants of all Classes by Clayton, H. J.