skinningn.

1419–20 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 199 (MED) Pro chippyng cujuslibet centene arcuum, xvj d..pro polyssyng et skynnyng cujuslibet centene, xx d.

1665 J. Wilson Projectors iv. 44 If you have ever so much time to spare, read but Sir Jeffery Drop-nose his discourse upon..skinning of Flints, and perhaps you may not think your time ill spent.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World i. xx. 540 The Sheep being brought privately by the Hottantots, who assisted in Skinning and Dressing, and had the Skin and Guts for their pains.

1704 J. Pitts True Acct. Mohammetans 14 With all the speed they can (without skinning) they cut the Body in two parts.

1878 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIV. 699 The skinning of flints and the driving of screws are practised by many people as if they were positively meritorious.

1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 105 My feet were not yet quite well, after the skinning they had got coming over the trail from Wallace.

1939 Street & Smith's Western Story Mag. 23 Sept. 71/1 All the Indians from miles around assembled to help with the skinning and to strip the tallow and render it out in big iron kettles.

1951 Jrnl. Wildlife Managem. 15 205/1 Various skinners found that the air-inflation treatment made the skinning noticeably easier.

1996 J. Morgan Debrett's New Guide Etiquette & Mod. Manners 330 The skinning of larger fruit such as apples and pears was once de rigueur, but with the increased emphasis on a high-fibre healthy diet this is now optional.

1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 347 Places for the skinning of strangers [Fr. écorcheries pour des étrangers], who are reputed to be rich.

1846 Madison (Wisconsin Territory) Express 21 May This skinning of poor girls, boys and men out of a shilling..will not be winked at by the power Supreme at the judgment day.

1872 N.Y. Herald 22 Mar. 6/3 These dealers, who have been so long the victims of official plunderers..that..they may be said to have become accustomed to skinning.

1893 Westm. 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.

1934 New Eng. Q. 7 606 The unhappy social results of the systematic fleecing and skinning of the public in the stock-market.

1985 Sunday Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 17 Nov. The skinning of a squatter.

2001 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 16 Dec. 15 Females specialised in the stealing of laundry... Another dodge of theirs was known as ‘skinning’, luring a well-dressed boy or girl into a dark alleyway and then stealing all their clothes.

1843 Cultivator June 94/1 We are surprised to hear a paper..urging the continuance in the ‘old fashion’ of cultivating the most important crop of the south, when it is, admitted by all, that that fashion is one of pure skinning, and that following it so long has nearly ruined the soil.

1856 Trans. Michigan State Agric. Soc. 7 171 The old plan of constant cropping without manure, or ‘skinning’, will ruin the land.

1888 Harper's Mag. Mar. 559 The skinning of the land by sending away its substance in hard wheat is an improvidence of natural resources.

1909 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 17 361 It is clear that to crop and to withhold up-keep of fertility—the process called ‘skinning’—or to slaughter the timber, is a well-recognized way of marketing a land value.

1934 L. Mumford Technics & Civilization v. 256 The skinning of the wheat lands and the cotton lands in order to provide cheap bread and textiles to the manufacturing classes was literally cutting the ground from under their feet.

1992 P. Shepard in M. Oelschlaeger Wilderness Condition 62 He sits astride a horse..on that domestic animal which more than any other symbolized and energized the worldwide pastoral debacle of the skinning of the earth.

1852 Ladies' Repository Nov. 429/2 The members of the committee are sometimes bribed by a brewer to report in favor of his beer. It is true, if this be found out, brewer and committee may expect a skinning.

1875 Harper's Mag. June 131/2 Then the French came; we gave them a skinning they will never forget.

1929 Chicagoan 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.

1972 J. W. Thompson in W. King Black Short Story Anthol. 260 That redhead doesn't know it yet, but he's got a skinning coming.

2004 Mirror (Nexis) 10 July 50 There were a series of excellent man to man contests. At the whistle, Anthony..came back to pick up Paddy Bradley and got the skinning of a lifetime.

1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. xxix, in Bulwarke of Defence And the third, to cause newe fleshe to growe, with the skinnyng of it.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice viii. xlviii. 67 Lay it vpon the sore plaister-wise, renewing it once a day till the Vlcer bee brought to skinning, then dry it vp, and skin it either with Creame and Soote, or with the powder of Hony and Lime.

1633 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 341 But whether these be perfect cures or but skinnings over..will appear hereafter.

1638 A. Read Treat. 1st Pt. Chirurg. ix. 66 We are not to goe about the skinning of the wound before the flesh bee somewhat higher than the naturall skin.

1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. Introd. 2 The first Stage of Healing..is by Surgeons call'd Digestion;..and the last, or skinning-over, Cicatrization.

a1793 J. Hunter Treat. Blood, Inflammation, & Gun-shot Wounds (1794) ii. vii. 483 Therefore contracting and skinning are probably effects of one cause.

1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflammation 455 The parts towards the centre may be so long kept from skinning, that the granulations may become weak.

1888 Lancet 18 Aug. 353/1 After this skinning over had taken place the whole presented a puckered appearance, the skin being arranged in folds radiating from the point of insertion of the cord.

1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) viii. 169 Granulation tissue may be covered with new skin in this way; but unless scar-contraction accompanies the skinning-over, the cicatrix is liable to break down.

1845 Times 18 Oct. 7/5 The skinning of the vessel is diagonal, with three thicknesses of oak.

1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 284 Skinning, a term used for planking a vessel.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 138 Planking, covering the outside of the timbers with plank; sometimes quaintly called ‘skinning’.

1996 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 22 May 11 Construction includes double skinning to comply with future requirements for ballast handling.

2006 Evening Standard (Palmerston North, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 May 19 He's working on the plane's fuel tanks and their fittings, while the tail structure he built awaits mounting of its wooden fixtures and skinning.