flayingn.
/ˈfleɪɪŋ/ The action of flay v.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > stripping of skin
hildinga1387
flayingc1440
casing1575
scoriation1582
excoriation1607
skinning1697
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 165/2 Fleynge of beestys, excoriacio.
1567 A. Golding in tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) Ep. Ded. sig. Aiii The fleaing of piper Marsies skin.
1848 H. Rogers Ess. I. vi. 321 The flaying and dissecting of a sophist at the hands of so dexterous an anatomist as Socrates.
Compounds
General attributive.
flaying-knife n.
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1842 R. Browning Waring in Bells & Pomegranates No. III: Dramatic Lyrics 11/1 Some Junius..shall tuck His sleeve, and out with flaying-knife.
flaying season n.
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1794 J. Boys Gen. View Agric. Kent 97 The oaks are all cut in the flawing season, for the bark of all sizes.
flaying-shovel n.
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1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Fleyin-shovel, a sort of plough with a single long handle like a spade driven by the hand.
flaying-spade n.
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1573 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 242 iij. peatspades, ij. flainge spades.
1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Flaying-spade, an implement for paring off the surface of rough grass land for burning.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
flayingadj.
That flays.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of skin > stripping of skin
deglubinga1658
flaying1663
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. ii. 145 Could not the whipping-post prevail..To keep from flaying scourge thy skin.
1728 J. Gay Beggar's Opera ii. i. 19 I could not save him from those fleaing Rascals the Surgeons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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