skinnery
noun/ˈskɪnəɹi/
Etymology From Middle English skynnery; equivalent to skin + -ery.
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Historical The workplace of a skinner.
- Formerly a ſkinnery was carried on in Berwick with conſiderable ſucceſs, but nothing of the kind has been attempted in it for ſome time paſt*.1799, John Fuller, The Hiſtory of Berwick Upon Tweed […] , page 377:
- Average length of 55 individuals measured in a skinnery in the same area was 140 cm (Erdelen et al. 1997).2004 September 21, Erick Pianka, Dennis King, editors, Varanoid Lizards of the World, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 248:
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- No longer do mills hum by the waterside; no longer does the skinnery and tannery float its stench across the valley; no longer does the playground ring with the cries of school children; and the last shop is gone.2014 March 3, Hamish Coghill, Lost Edinburgh: Edinburgh's Lost Architectural Heritage, Birlinn, →ISBN, page 152: