case-skinning

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the process of removing an animal's pelt by peeling it off without slitting the body (much as a sock is removed from a foot); box-skinning.

Quotations

1921

In the forest there are several different ways of skinning animals: one is called "case skinning" and another is called "split skinning."