fellmonger

[fel-mong-ger, -muhng-]

noun

Chiefly British.

1. a preparer of skins or hides of animals, especially sheepskins, prior to leather making.

fellmonger

/ ˈfɛlˌmʌŋɡə /

noun

1. a person who deals in animal skins or hides

Other Word Forms

• fellmongering noun
• fellmongery noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of fellmonger¹

First recorded in 1520–30; fell ⁴ + monger

Example Sentences

John Cockes, fellmonger, buys 287 “shorling felles,” at 3s. the dozen, 190 “skynnes of wynter felles” at 6s. the dozen, 77 “skynnes somerfelles” at 8s. the dozen, for a total for £10. 18s. 1d.

From Project Gutenberg

West Yorkshire Police said the 26-year-old had been outside the Fellmonger pub on North Parkway at about 2345 BST when the attack happened.

From BBC

Henry Allenby, son of a fellmonger, Mr. Richard Allenby, residing near the Wong, and having a tanyard on the Lincoln Road, became an assistant chemist at St. Albans. 

From Project Gutenberg

There must have been considerable division of the various trades even before the Conquest, and each trade must have inhabited a separate quarter; for we find at Winchester, or elsewhere, in the reign of Æthelred, Fellmonger, Horsemonger, Fleshmonger, Shieldwright, Shoewright, Turner, and Salter Streets.

From Project Gutenberg

I once read the letter of a contemporary of HOBBES, where I found that this great philosopher, when a lad, used to ride on packs of skins to market, to sell them for his father, who was a fellmonger; and that in the market-place he thus early began to vent his private opinions, which long afterwards so fully appeared in his writings.

From Project Gutenberg