起hei2骨gwat1

English

1. extracting bones from meat (spoken)
2. to bone; to remove bones from something (fish, meat, etc.)unreviewed?
3. to make the paper or clothes to fold firmly and tidily with shape crease lines and corners by ironing or foldingunreviewed?

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 將某啲物件裏面嘅骨剔走，通常係指食物（例如魚肉、雞肉等等）unreviewed?
2. 用摺疊或熨斗等方法令紙張或衣服整齊咁摺起，並現出又深又直嘅摺痕unreviewed?

Examples

• unreviewed?

  麻煩你幫啲魚起骨。

  Please help remove bones from the fish. ----

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  傳統殮葬中，喺先人土葬幾年之後，肉身已經完全腐化，剩低棚骨，將棚骨由泥入面揀返出嚟，就叫起骨，係執骨程序嘅一部份

  part of reinter process, to collect all the bones from the earth; literally "to bone" as the process is done years after the initial burial, and all that remains is the bones