Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who hunts animals for their skins.
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Examples
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But the dreadful age of the repeating rifle and lawless skin-hunter came on, till the end of the last century saw the Bighorn in the United States reduced to a few hundreds; they were well along the sunset trail.
Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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Kamchatka seems to be safe from the iron heel of the skin-hunter.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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Alaska; from the Yosemite to the Yellowstone, the trout-hog, the deer-wolf, the netter, the skin-hunter, each and all have it their own way; and the law is a farce -- only to be enforced where the game has vanished forever.
Woodcraft George Washington Sears 1855
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