flesher
Americannoun
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a person who fleshes hides.
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a tool for fleshing hides.
noun
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a person or machine that fleshes hides or skins
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a person who sells meat; butcher
Etymology
Origin of flesher
First recorded in 1325–75, flesher is from the Middle English word fleshour. See flesh, -er 1
Example Sentences
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Now Deydey asked for the use of Omakayas’s gun-barrel flesher.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Taking the hide flesher in his hands, Deydey sharpened the end well on his sharpening stone.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Pride fought with dismay inside of her, and she took the gun-barrel hide flesher from her father with a conflicted heart.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
We often walk through its quiet, myrtle-bordered paths on our way to the other end of the village, where Mrs. Bruce, the flesher, keeps an unrivalled assortment of beef and mutton.
From Penelope's Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
"I should recollect—' "Under your lordship's favour," he continued, "I was 'prentice, my lord, to old Mungo Moniplies, the flesher at the wanton West-Port of Edinburgh, which I wish I saw again before I died.
From The Fortunes of Nigel by Sir Walter Scott
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