2. Adjective. (Ireland) (colloquial) (regarding the weather) exceptionally cold. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skinning
1. skin [v] - See also: skin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skinning
Literary usage of Skinning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Taxidermy by John Rowley (1898)
"Care is used in skinning around the eyes not to cut the lids. ... The skinning
is proceeded with as far as the mouth, and the lips severed close to the bone ..."
2. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1859)
"... Authority—London—" Government of the Tongue "—Good Friday—Easter day—Eel-
skinning—Claret, Port, Brandy—Shakspeare's Witches—Lochlomond—Liberty—Hackman ..."
3. The American Sportsman: Containing Hints to Sportsmen, Notes on Shooting by Elisha Jarrett Lewis, George G. White (1863)
"The following day or evening will be quite time enough to commence the operation
of skinning, as the blood will not be completely coagulated till the lapse ..."
4. On the frontier: reminiscences of wild sports, personal adventures, and by J. S. Campion (1878)
"... pair of mules to fetch in the meat after each ran, and it never occurred to
me I should find any difficulty in skinning an old bull without assistance. ..."
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