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flayer|ˈfleɪə(r)|
[f. flay v. + -er1.]
1. One who flays; also fig. one who ‘fleeces’ or practises extortion.
c1440Promp. Parv. 165/1 Flear of beest, excoriator. 1598Florio Scórticaporcélli, a fleaer of hogs. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xiii. §1 Euery Fox must yeeld his owne skin and haires to the flayer. 1800J. Hurdis Fav. Village 152 Her lamb By the bleak season slain, her welted coat Yields to the flayer. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. i, Pubsby & Co. are regular flayers and grinders.
2. Hist. (transl. F. écorcheur). One of a number of French brigands in the 14th century, who ‘flayed’ or pillaged the people.
1832tr. Sismondi's Ital. Rep. xiv. 310 The French..had bands called flayers (écorcheurs). 1891Cornh. Mag. Oct. 416 His whole life was spent in raids..upon the Brabanters, late-comers, flayers, free companions [etc.]. |