fleshingn.
/ˈflɛʃɪŋ/ 1. The action of inciting (hounds) to the chase by giving them a taste of flesh.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > inciting hounds
fleshing1575
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxvi. 213 Greyhoundes will requyre greater fleshyng and encouragement to a Wolfe than to any other chace.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Acharnement A fleshing.
2. Leather Manufacturing. The action or process of scraping off the pieces of flesh, etc., adhering to the flesh-side of a skin; also plural that which is scraped off.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > cleaning hides > removing flesh
fleshing1777
green shaving1885
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > parts or dirt removed from hide
tawing1611
skivinga1825
fleshing1860
scud1885
1777 Macbride in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 68 114 The operation called fleshing..consists in a further scraping, with a particular kind of knife..and cutting away the jagged extremities and offal parts, such as the ears and nostrils.
1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) II. 676 The fleshings are pressed into cakes, and sold for making glue.
1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. xxvi. 323 The unhairing and fleshing of calf skins.
3. (See quot. 1598, and cf. flesh n. 6.)
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > frequenting prostitutes
drabbery1570
fleshing1598
drabbinga1611
strumpeting1656
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes To go a fleshing or a wenching.
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4. Scottish. ‘The business of a butcher’ (J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. 1825).
5. The distribution of the flesh on an animal.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > flesh > distribution of
fleshing1876
1876 Daily News 5 Dec. 2/1 The dainty shapes, undeniable style, and even fleshing of Sir W. C. Trevelyan's beautiful white Irish and shorthorn cross.
6. plural. A close-fitting, flesh-coloured garment of a light material, usually of silk, worn upon the stage to represent the natural skin; also fleshing-tights.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > of specific colour > article of
imperial purple1447
motley1575
mazarine1694
fleshings1838
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for body and limbs > flesh-coloured
fleshings1838
1838 D. Jerrold J. Runnymede in Men of Char. v, in Wks. (1864) III. 189 Mind and be very particular with the fleshings.
1856 A. Smith Sketches of Day 1st Ser. ii. i. 9 Any lovely spirit, whose silk fleshings move in pliant grace.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 118/2 Then I'm dressed-up in fleshing tights.
1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such x. 178 Ophelia in fleshings.
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fleshing-beam n. (see quot.).
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1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Flesh-beam or Fleshing-beam, a wooden instrument..on which is suspended the hide to be dressed, for the purpose of scraping off any remains of the flesh, &c.
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fleshing-board n. = fleshing-beam n.
fleshing-iron n. = fleshing-knife n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for removing flesh or hair
fleshing-iron1547
pilling knife1688
grainer1839
slicker1852
worker1860
scraper1865
beaming machine1874
beaming-tool1874
flesher1885
slater1885
shaver1897
1547 Aberdeen Reg. 17 Feb. Item, ane flesching buird, with ane fuyt and ane flesching jrne.
fleshing-knife n. (see quot. 1839).
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1812 Niles' Weekly Reg. 25 Jan. 390/1 The subscriber..at short notice can furnish tanner's fleshing knives.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 764 The fleshing knife; a large two handled implement with a blunt edge, and bent to suit the curvature of the rounded beam of the wooden horse upon which the hide is scraped.
fleshing-shop n. the place where skins are fleshed; a beam-house.
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1885 A. Watt Art of Leather Manuf. xxiv. 291 The goatskins, when ready for..fleshing, are removed to the fleshing shop.
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