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▪ I. flesher1 Chiefly Sc.|ˈflɛʃə(r)|
Forms: 4–7 fles(c)har, -ir, -or, -(e)our, 7– flesher.
[f. flesh n. + -er. Cf. Ger. fleischer; also fleshhewer, of which this may be an alteration.]
1. A dealer in flesh, a butcher.
1369Mem. Ripon (1882) I. 137 Joh. de Staynlay, Fleshour. 1483Cath. Angl. 135/2 A Fleschour, macellarius. 1533Bellenden Livy iii. (1822) 274 He pullit ane swerde fra ane flescheour. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 121 A fleshiour, named Sandersone, had putt away his lawfull wife. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 186 A bit schachlin ewe-necked powney, coft frae a sporting flesher. 1853Reade Chr. Johnstone 176 The baddish boy had obtained them [steaks]..at the flesher's.
transf.1533Bellenden Livy ii. (1822) 160 The pepill had na litill indignacioun that this Marcius suld rise sa haistelie to be thair new fleschour and skurgeare.
2. U.S. A tool for fleshing hides; a fleshing-knife.
1885C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather 309 The saw-toothed flesher sometimes employed for dry hides.
Hence ˈfleshery (Sc.) ‘The business of a butcher; now called Fleshing’ (Jam. Suppl. 1825).
1483[see fleshhewery]. 1541Aberdeen Reg. V. 19 (Jam.), The counsale licent him to vse his craft of fleshary to outred his pennyworths.
▪ II. † ˈflesher2 Obs.
[f. flesh v.]
An encourager.
1646Gaule Cases Consc. 87 To advise them to prudence..in such a case; is to be reputed..a Favourer and a Flesher of Witches. |