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

He was a jerkline skinner, the prince of the ranch, capable of driving ten, sixteen, even twenty mules with a single line to the leaders.

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

These huge construction jobs mean huge payrolls; into Fairbanks alone last week Pan American was flying 2,500 laborers, cat skinners, carpenters.

From Time Magazine Archive

The saddlers had their hall, and the lorimers or harness-makers theirs, and the skinners and leather sellers and tanners had theirs.

From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey