skinner
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Twan was bony, even skinner than I was, so skinny he didn't have shoulders.
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2022
Dale Firm, a 57-year-old fish skinner for Campo, said he likely faces a future of welfare and food stamps if the bills pass.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 21, 2020
He worked as a “lumper,” bringing boxes of fish from the boats, then as a journeyman, wheeling them to the loading zones, then as a skinner, a cutter, a salesman, and, finally, a buyer.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2019
He once successfully administered antivenin to a skinner who had been bitten by a snake, he wrote in a column for Sports Afield, and soldered a leaking radiator on a baggage truck.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 22, 2018
The skinner had been studying the old dog with his calm eyes.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
Inskip and her colleagues zeroed in on the medieval city of Winchester, which had not only skinners, tailors, and furriers, but also a hospital for leprosy patients.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2024
Everything began with personnel identified as "skinners," who would select an animal from the tarp and heave it onto a table.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2022
The milliner Stephen Jones said the same before a show of Edward Crutchley’s work, held inside a medieval guild hall devoted to London’s skinners, and most notable for its hats.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2020
There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur.
From Time Magazine Archive
I expressed my pleasure at having provided the skinners with amusement and bidding them farewell, trotted on.
From The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
