= fleshing-knife n.

Leather-dressing. A tool either for taking off the hair of skins, or for producing the appearance of ‘grain’.

A tool used for scraping or smoothing leather. (Cf. sleeker, n.)

Tanning. A knife used to remove hair from hides. Now rare.

A scraping instrument held in the hand. An implement of varying construction used by pre-industrial peoples for removing the hair from skins. Hence…

(a) a machine for beaming and working hides; (b) a machine for filling the beams of looms with yarn; also called beaming mill.

U.S. A tool for fleshing hides; a fleshing-knife.

A blade of slate or the like used for slating skins and hides.

A shaving machine.