Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that flays, dresses, or sells animal skins.
- noun Western US A mule driver.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who deals in skins of any sort, as hides, furs, or parchments; a furrier.
- noun One who removes the skin, as from animals; a flayer.
- noun One who strips or robs; a plunderer; specifically [capitalized], in United States history, one of a body of marauders during the revolutionary war, professedly belonging to the American side, who infested the region between the British and American lines in New York, and committed depredations, especially upon the loyalists.
- noun A bird fat enough to burst the skin on falling to the ground when shot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who skins.
- noun One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
skins animals. - noun One who deals in
skins ,pelts , orhides .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who prepares or deals in animal skins
- noun United States actor (1858-1942)
- noun United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990)
- noun a worker who drives mules
- noun United States actress noted for her one-woman shows (1901-1979)
Etymologies
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The skinner was a fat, good-humoured creature, like all
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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im a big x files fan an i cant recall skinner saying anything like that,,
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There have been few ante-post setbacks to match it in recent seasons, and victory for the new O'Brien-trained favourite, Jan Vermeer, would be a relative "skinner" for the layers in ante-post terms as he was barely on the punters 'radar until his win in the Gallinule Stakes 10 days ago.
Cape Blanco to join St Nicholas Abbey in missing the Derby 2010
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By his son, Theodorus Van Wyck, Esq., of Fishkill Hook, who remembers to have been shown, within the last forty years, by an individual then living, the bones of a "skinner," or cowboy, still lying unburied in a defile of the mountains.
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes Abraham Tomlinson
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Provides the ability to apply different skins to a theme By copy the 'skinner' directory to your wp-contents / plugins directory.
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travismcdermott commented on the word skinner
1398 TREVISA Barth. De P.R. XVIII. lxxv. (Bodl. MS.), The cat is ofte for his faire skynne itake of the skynner and islayne & ihuylded.
May 12, 2008