fellmongern.
/ˈfɛlˌmʌŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈfɛlˌmɑŋɡər/, /ˈfɛlˌməŋɡər/ A person who deals in or processes animal skins, esp. one whose occupation is to remove the wool from sheepskins before tanning.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in skins or furs
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > worker with skins or hides > [noun]
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1310 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1900) B. 252 Felmongere.
1351–2 in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1883) App. 2/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 3773) XXXVII. 1 Robert atte Brok, felmonger.
1432 Close Roll, 10 Henry VI (P.R.O.: C 54/282) m. 7v Willelmo Coumbys Ciui & ffelmonger London.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 219/2 Felmongar, megissier.
1582 J. Mellis in Record's Grounde of Artes (rev. ed.) iii. xiii. sig. Tt.vv Taking woolles of a Felmonger at 7 ℔ 10 [s] the C. waight.
1621 J. Taylor Shilling sig. B7 To Cutlers, Parrators, to Posts, to Iudges, To Druggists, Felmongers, and to toyling Drudges.
1681 T. Otway Souldiers Fortune iv. i. 41 A frowzy Fellmonger.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. ii. i. 53 The Wool..being taken from the Sheeps back..by the Fellmonger.
1773 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 599/1 The trades of the fell-monger and carcase-butcher are intolerable.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 423 Fellmongers' poake..is the waste arising from the preparation of skins.
1860 Lyttelton (N.Z.) Times 7 Nov. 4/3 Henry Inwood, fellmonger,..proved that the hides in question could not have been properly cured.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. ii. 8 Shopkeepers' sons, young grocers, fellmongers.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §338 Fellmonger, general term for any person employed in fellmongery trade, e.g. washing sheep skins, painting pelt side of skins with chemicals to facilitate subsequent pulling [etc.].
1960 New Scientist 9 June 1496/1 (advt.) A machine for fellmongers who prepare woolled sheepskins.
1978 Canberra Times 26 July 11 Its fellmongers and tanners understood from their own experience why farmers needed to be reasonably prosperous.
2009 Manawatu (N.Z.) Standard (Nexis) 21 Feb. (Weekend Mag.) 15 Chinese companies now buy the salted hides at higher prices than New Zealand fellmongers, and take them straight to Chinese plants for processing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
fellmongerv.
/ˈfɛlˌmʌŋɡə/, U.S. /ˈfɛlˌmɑŋɡər/, /ˈfɛlˌməŋɡər/, Australian English /ˈfelˌmʌŋɡə/, New Zealand English /ˈfelˌmʌŋɡə/ Chiefly Australian and New Zealand.
transitive. To remove (the wool) from the skin or hide of a dead sheep; to process (a sheepskin) in this way. Also intransitive.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > other processes
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1843 Sydney Morning Herald 22 July 4/1 (advt.) Sheepskins fellmongered at a moderate charge for labour.
1883 Breeder's Gaz. (Chicago) 7 May 704/1 Owners who have been unfortunate in losing large numbers of sheep can often find a handsome profit in ‘fellmongering’ pelts.
1912 Leather World 11 July 516/2 The extra plump appearance of pelts that have been fellmongered with lime and sodium sulphide.
1940 Auckland Star 28 May 4/4 Such skins as are fellmongered are first bought by the Control.
1957 H. Phillips Surv. Fellmongering N.Z. & Austral. 16 State abattoirs do not fellmonger.
1988 Jrnl. Agric. (W. Austral. Dept. Agric.) 29 77 Factors affecting either the wool or pelt value..affect the price of fellmongering skins.
2009 T. Covington Tanning Chem. v. 128 The technology of exploiting the lyotropic effect for unhairing was developed in Australia for fellmongering sheepskins.
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ˈfellˌmongered adj.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > treated or sold by fellmonger
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1859 Sydney Morning Herald 27 May 8/3 The lots catalogued to-day consisted principally of northern fleece and fellmongered wools.
1870 Timaru (Canterbury, N.Z.) Herald 27 Apr. 2/1 The fresh arrivals of New Zealand wool..consists chiefly of scoured and fellmongered parcels.
1920 Land (New S. Wales) 30 July 15/3 Wool from fellmongered skins.
2007 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 15 Aug. 102 The plant provides value-adding opportunities to process fellmongered wool retrieved from sheep skins.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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