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skinning, vbl. n.|ˈskɪnɪŋ|
[f. skin v.]
1. a. The action or process of covering with skin, or of forming a new skin; cicatrization, healing. Also with over, and fig.
1547Boorde Brev. Health 49 For skynnynge of a place there is nothing shal skyn so sone as it wyl. 1633Wotton Lett. (1907) II. 341 But whether these be perfect cures or but skinnings over..will appear hereafter. 1638A. Read Chirurg. ix. 66 We are not to goe about the skinning of the wound before the flesh bee somewhat higher than the naturall skin. 1739S. Sharp Surg. Introd. 2 The first Stage of Healing..is by Surgeons call'd Digestion;..and the last, or skinning-over, Cicatrization. 1793J. Hunter Treat. Blood, etc. Wks. 1837 III. 496 Therefore contracting and skinning are probably effects of one cause. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 455 The parts towards the centre may be so long kept from skinning, that the granulations may become weak.
b. Naut. (See quots.)
1846A. Young Naut. Dict. 284 Skinning, a term used for planking a vessel. c1850Rudim. Nav. (Weale) 138 Planking, covering the outside of the timbers with plank; sometimes..called ‘skinning’.
2. a. The removal, or stripping off, of skin; the fact of having the skin removed or rubbed off. Also fig.
1775in Ash. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 141 These..are bound to exert themselves..in taking beavers, which, without skinning, they render in at the trader's lodge. 1878Spurgeon Serm. XXIV. 699 The skinning of flints and the driving of screws are practised by many people as if they were positively meritorious. 1891C. Roberts Adrift Amer. 105 My feet were not yet quite well, after the skinning they had got coming over the trail from Wallace.
†b. Fleecing, plundering. Obs. rare—1.
1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 347 Places for the skinning of strangers, who are reputed to be rich.
c. Impoverishing, exhausting.
1856Trans. Michigan State Agric. Soc. VII. 171 The old plan of constant cropping without manure, or ‘skinning’, will ruin the land. 1888Harper's Mag. Mar. 559 The skinning of the land by sending away its substance in hard wheat is an improvidence of natural resources.
d. A physical or verbal beating; a hammering. U.S. slang.
1929Chicagoan 17 Aug. 22/2 In this period he [sc. Carl Sandburg] wrote the poetic denunciation of the Rev. Billy Sunday that..remains as the most thorough skinning that the evangelist ever received. 1972J. W. Thompson in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 260 Daddy..has taught me several different ways to skin a cat, and that redhead doesn't know it yet, but he's got a skinning coming.
3. (See quot.) slang. Cf. skin v. 11.
1973Daily Mail 3 Apr. 19/4 Skinning, injecting drugs under the skin.
4. attrib., as skinning-apparatus, skinning knife, skinning process, skinning table.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 602/2 The skinning process takes place in this stage. 1859G. A. Jackson Diary 8 Jan. in F. Hall Hist. Colorado (1890) II. 521 Dug and panned to-day until my belt knife was worn out; so will have to quit or use my skinning knife. 1864Wheelwright Spring Lapl. 296 Hoping soon to see it lying on his skinning table! 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2196/1 Skinning-apparatus, a mechanical appliance for removing the hides from animals. 1884Good Words June 391/1 The skinning knives did duty as table knives. |