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  • verb Present participle of skin.
  • adjective Ireland (colloquial) (regarding the weather) exceptionally cold.

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Examples

  • Another consideration, the purchases have to be made through TomTom. com, so while the skinning is free, customers can't cross shop online retailers.

    TomTom offers free, custom printing on GPS devices 2010

  • What do you want Sarah Palin skinning a dead moose for the photo ops?

    GOP leader bashes Obama's happy hour 2009

  • I had the opportunity to participate in a scenario much like the one mentioned above in Mn. While the camraderie was great, the product was less than desirable, and I went back to handling my own deer personally. 1 trick I use after skinning is a rosebud torch over the entire carcass to burn off any hair.

    Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better? 2009

  • This wholesale land-skinning is the national crime of the United

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • I had the opportunity to participate in a scenario much like the one mentioned above in Mn. While the camraderie was great, the product was less than desirable, and I went back to handling my own deer personally. 1 trick I use after skinning is a rosebud torch over the entire carcass to burn off any hair.

    Beef or Venison: Which Tastes Better? 2009

  • When I had begun on the plates the cook would take me away from the plates to begin skinning onions, and when I had begun on the onions the patron would arrive and send me out to buy cabbages.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • This wholesale land-skinning is the national crime of the United

    Chapter 11 1913

  • The rest of the evening was spent in skinning, and cutting up, and salting the ugly creature, whose flesh filled a barrel with excellent meat, in flavour resembling beef, while the short grain and juicy nature of the flesh gave to it the tenderness of mutton.

    Roughing It in the Bush 1852

  • LOL an other pain about skinning is a lot of times you can’t skin a mods pet. techgeekgirl

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “It’s the little things” 2008

  • Oh, and I finally bothered to pick up "Professional Master" in skinning.

    "Other hands than it should pass through..." stsisyphus 2009

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