skinner

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

A young mule skinner named Milton Humason helped to transport mechanical and optical equipment, scientists, engineers and dignitaries up the mountain.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

This quiet announcement was the final settlement of an international war which had raged for a year among some of the world's shrewdest mule skinners.

From Time Magazine Archive

A conference between the University and the city authorities took place, and edicts against carrying arms were published, but the skinners immediately indulged in another outrage.

From Life in the Medieval University by Robert S. Rait