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English
Etymology
From Middle English skynnery; equivalent to skin + -ery.
Pronunciation
Noun
skinnery
- (chiefly historical) The workplace of a skinner.
1799, John Fuller, The Hiſtory of Berwick Upon Tweed , 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, 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, 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.