Abstract: A device for severing the meat adhering to bones by compressing the bones having meat adhering thereto has a press cavity having an upright axis, a filling cavity arranged above the press cavity and an abutment arranged beside this filling cavity. The press cavity has a side wall provided with openings through which the pressed, paste-like meat can pass, while the bones cannot. The abutment and the filling cavity can be moved together transversely to the direction of the axis of the press cavity, so that the mass of meat and bones to be compressed can fall from the filling cavity into the press cavity, when the filling cavity is brought into a position in which it aligns with the press cavity. When the press cavity is tightly closed by the abutment, the mass of meat and bones can be pressed by a piston.