Anagrams of: OBTAINING

• one species: cross vine

• water travel for pleasure

• harassment especially of a tethered animal

• capable of wounding

• causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

• To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

• To fertilize with bone.

• To put whalebone into.

• To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

• (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

• (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

• (usually with "up") To study.

• To polish boots to a shiny finish.

• To apprehend, steal.

• To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

• The removal of bones from a carcass; filleting.

• The arrangement of bones in a corset.

• An act of sexual intercourse.

• Bone structure.

• The fertilization of a field with bone meal.

• The process or result of leveling using a boning rod.

• Placement of a curse by pointing with a bone, practiced by Australian aborigines; an act of pointing the bone.

• moderate or restrain; lessen the force of

• flap the wings wildly or frantically; used of falcons

• soak in a special solution to soften and remove chemicals used in previous treatments

• a building where prostitutes are available

• a building containing public baths

• A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).

• A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.

• A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.

• A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.