skin
noun
the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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Shon has been skinning and breaking up the deer.”
From Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by Fenn, George Manville