DCHP-3

skinner

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Hist.

a teamster, so called because he figuratively skins his horses, mules, etc. with his whip.

Quotations

1910
The teamsters are called "skinners." I met them all on the log road.
1953
The [stage] drivers, or "skinners," as they were called, wore coonskin coats with an eight-foot red sash, braided by Quebec habitants, tied around the waist.
1954
A single line attached to the next leader's bit and passed back along the teams to the teamster or "skinner."
2n.

See catskinner (def. 1) 1947 quote.

See: catskinner(meaning 1)

Quotations

1958
In one day, a skinner can cut one mile of trail, three miles of trail or ten feet of trail depending entirely on what he hits.