outskin
verbEtymology From out- + skin.
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To surpass in skinning.
- There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses:
outskin
nounEtymology From out- + skin.
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An outer skin; surface.
- One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned.1884, Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine, volume 8:
- But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.1896, Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest:
3 more examples
- The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin.1948, Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening:
- Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly […]1962, Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24
- Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman […]2005, Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar:
- They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […]1938, George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158:
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A skin or pelt of some special description.