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skinner1|ˈskɪnə(r)|
Forms: 5 scynner(e, schynnere, skynnar(e, 6 skynar, 5–7 skynner, 6– skinner.
[f. skin n. or v. + -er1. Cf. ON. skinnari, MSw. skinnare, Norw. skinnar.]
1. One whose work or business is concerned with the preparation of skins for commercial purposes.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxv. (Bodl. MS.), [The cat] is ofte for his faire skynne itake of þe skynner and islayne & ihuylded. 1418Nottingham Rec. II. 116 Johanne Crophyll, skynner. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. xvii, Theyr skynnes were good for to make mantels with, yf skynners myght haue them. 1542Boorde Dyetary (1870) 249 Let your skynner cut both the sortes of the skynnes in smale peces tryangle wyse. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier Wks. (Grosart) XI. 268 He began to tell me that by his art he was a Skinner. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme 873 The skinners are woont to make stomachers to lay ouer the stomacke. 1675Ogilby Britannia Introd., The Principal Companies are the Mercers,..Skinners. 1859C. Barker Assoc. Principle ii. 45 One Hinde, a citizen and skinner of London, lent to Henry IV. the sum of {pstlg}2000. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 852/2 Seven of the livery companies of London.., the Mercers',..the Salters',..and the Skinners'.
attrib.1794R. Gray in Scott Stat. Acc. Perth (1796) 38 This corporation has a very convenient skinner-work.
2. a. One who removes the skin; a flayer.
1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. iii. 98 Then the Hockser immediately Mounts, and Rides after more Game, leaving the other to the Skinners, who are at hand, and ready to take off his Hide. 1884Good Words June 391/1 In districts where the game is abundant more skinners were enlisted.
b. An implement used for skinning animals.
1872Amer. Naturalist VI. 223 The specimen could have been used as a knife, or ‘skinner’, although now its edge is too irregular and dull for skinning.
3. U.S. One of a number of marauders who committed depredations on the neutral ground between the British and American lines during the War of Independence.
1775–83[see cow-boy 2]. 1821J. F. Cooper Spy i, This poor opinion of the Skinners was not confined to Mr. Cæsar Thompson. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 290 Who knows but you are one o' the tories yourself..or one o' the skinners? 1857[see cow-boy 2]. 1882Lecky Engl. in 18th Cent. IV. 129 The loyalist banditti called the Skinners.
4. a. (See quot.)
1856Mayhew Gt. World London 46 ‘Skinners,’ or women and boys who strip children of their clothes.
b. A fleecer. Also in racing slang (see quot. 1874 and cf. skin v. 7 c); esp. common in Australia to mean (a) a horse that wins a race at very long odds; (b) any betting coup.
1856Doran Knights & their Days ix. 142 They are constituted the legal skinners of all sojourners among them. 1874Slang Dict. 293 Skinner, a term among bookmakers. ‘May we have a skinner,’ i.e., may we skin the lamb. 1893Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 5/2 Yesterday's race..resulted in what the sporting public, high and low, graphically describe as a ‘skinner’. The bookmakers..do the skinning. 1903A. M. Binstead Pitcher in Paradise xii. 292 A skinner!—great-balls-of-fire! a skinner! 1907A. Wright Keane of Kalgoorlie 66 Although he had gone up in the weights considerably, his owner decreed that he should win the Rosehill handicap, and give the ‘shop’ another ‘skinner’. 1930Technique of Betting 7 Frequently a race is won by a horse against which the bookmaker has not laid any bet, and the book then shows a profit of 100%—the bookmaker has what he calls a ‘skinner’. 1934T. Wood Cobbers viii. 96 Charles..would lay two to one port-wine jelly, five to apple-pie... Tonight we had college pudding and jam tart. Charles..said it was a skinner for the books. 1974Sydney Morning Herald 8 Oct. 17 Skinner for bookmakers. 1977A. C. H. Smith Jericho Gun v. 60 At twelve to one, which is the forecast SP here, it's a skinner.
5. One who makes skin to grow. In quot. fig.
1660Gauden Slight Healers Publick Hurts 43 Pretenders to heal, superficial skinners.
6. (See quots.)
1881Day Fishes Gt. Brit. I. 278 Poullach..In the Channel those the size of a whiting are termed codlings and skinners. 1881Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 59 When Cod are of the size of Whiting they are termed Codlings and ‘Skinners’.
7. A driver of a team of horses or mules; occas. also, a lorry driver. N. Amer.
1870[see mule skinner s.v. mule1 5 c]. 1910E. Ferguson Janey Canuck in West 91 The teamsters are called ‘skinners’. I met them all on the log road. 1924Scribner's Mag. Dec. 645/1 The skinner with the longest words travels the fastest. 1929Amer. Speech V. 147 Since the driver of the old time orecar was called a mule-skinner or mule-whacker, the driver of the modern motor-propelled car is a motor-skinner, sometimes just a trammer. 1939J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath ii. 14 A guy that never been a truck skinner don't know nothin' what it's like. 1954E. F. Hagell When Grass was Free 3 A single line attached to the next leader's bit and passed back along the teams to the teamster or ‘skinner’.
8. a skinner semi-adj.: ‘skint’, broke; empty. N.Z. colloq.
1943New Writing XVIII. 68 So I paid for the pair of us, which left me practically a skinner. 1967Landfall XXI. 241 Sure you're a skinner? Not a drop in the place, I mean? 1981Macquarie Dict. (s.v. skinner), The beer's a skinner. |