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Etymology

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From Middle English skynnery; equivalent to skin +‎ -ery.

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Noun

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skinnery

  1. (chiefly historical) The workplace of a skinner.
    • 1799, John Fuller, The Hiſtory of Berwick Upon Tweed [] [1], page 377:
      Formerly a ſkinnery was carried on in Berwick with conſiderable ſucceſs, but nothing of the kind has been attempted in it for ſome time paſt*.
    • 2004 September 21, Erick Pianka, Dennis King, editors, Varanoid Lizards of the World[2], Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 248:
      Average length of 55 individuals measured in a skinnery in the same area was 140 cm (Erdelen et al. 1997).
    • 2014 March 3, Hamish Coghill, Lost Edinburgh: Edinburgh's Lost Architectural Heritage[3], Birlinn, →ISBN, page 152:
      No longer do mills hum by the waterside; no longer does the skinnery and tannery float its stench across the valley; no longer does the playground ring with the cries of school children; and the last shop is gone.