Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In leather manufacturing, a wheel for removing the oil from fur-skins.

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Examples

  • Jelinek put on his long wolfskin coat, and when we admired it, he told us that he had shot and skinned the coyotes, and the young man who “batched” with him, Jan Bouska, who had been a fur-worker in Vienna, made the coat.

    My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • 'batched' with him, Jan Bouska, who had been a fur-worker in Vienna, made the coat.

    My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

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