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Definition of Boners
1. boner [n] - See also: boner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boners
Literary usage of Boners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"H. Notes taken out of M. Robert boners Journall, who was then Master in the Dragon.
Aprill the thirteenth, wee had the generall wind. ..."
2. Soldiers in King Philip's War: Being a Critical Account of that War, with a by George Madison Bodge (1906)
"... boners: Severall of there Inhabitance being removed from them: and those in
garrison being butt poore helps in divers respects and in number but 12 men, ..."
3. Soldiers in King Philip's War: Containing Lists of the Soldiers of by George Madison Bodge (1891)
"... from those partes : If your boners please to send us one any further Service
I hope we shall nolt be unwilling bull forwarde to doe our uttermost ..."
4. Annual Report of the Minimum Wage Commission of Massachusetts by Minimum Wage Commission, Massachusetts, Herman La Rue Brown, Robert Edgar Bisbee, Edwin N. Bartlett, Charles Frederick Dutch (1914)
"The back of a corset usually has a pair of wires at each side, which are inserted,
like the side wires, by the boners (see "boning"), after back strips have ..."
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