flesher
flesher Lexical Profile
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• noun
Scottish A butcher; a person whose trade is slaughtering animals and selling their meat.
"The local flesher prepared prime cuts of beef and lamb for the village market."
A leatherworker who scrapes clinging flesh, fat, and membrane from the underside of animal hides prior to tanning.
"In the traditional tannery, the flesher worked over a wooden beam to clean the raw hides before soaking them in lime."
A specialized two-handled scraping knife or bladed tool used by tanners and trappers to remove flesh and fat from animal skins.
"The trapper drew the curved flesher carefully across the pelt to strip away the remaining fat without slicing the hide."
• Rhymes for flesher
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English 'flessher' or 'fleschour', formed from 'flesh' (from Old English 'flæsc', meaning meat or tissue) plus the agentive suffix '-er'.