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ˈfellˌmonger
[f. fell n.1 + monger.]
A dealer in skins or hides of animals, esp. sheep-skins. In modern use restricted to an operative who works skins.
1530Palsgr. 219/2 Felmongar, megissier. 1681Otway Soldier's Fort. iv. i, A frouzy Fellmonger. 1745De Foe's Eng. Tradesman II. xlvii. 188 The wool being taken from the skin by the fellmonger. 1834Brit. Husb. I. 423 Fell⁓mongers' poake..is the waste arising from the preparation of skins. 1845Dodd Brit. Manuf. V. 195 There are in Bermondsey several manufacturers called fellmongers, whose business it is to bring sheep⁓skins into a certain state of preparation before the leather⁓dresser commences his operations thereon. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. ii, Shopkeepers' sons, young grocers, fellmongers, &c. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §338 Fellmonger, general term for any person employed in fellmongery trade, e.g. washing sheep skins, painting pelt side of skins with chemicals to facilitate subsequent pulling [etc.]. 1960New Scientist 9 June 1496/1 (Advt.), A machine for fellmongers who prepare woolled sheepskins.
Hence ˈfellmongered a., ˈfellmongering vbl. n.; ˈfellˌmongery, the craft or calling of a fellmonger; in quot. attrib.
1759B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 393 Likewise a good Trade in the Felmongery Business. 1895Australas. Pastoralists' Rev. 15 Aug. 284 The very large quantity of fellmongered wool sold in Sydney. 1897Daily News 7 Oct. 2/2 Fellmongering and leather dressing premises. |