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from The Century Dictionary.
- In leather manufacturing, to remove the outer surfase of (a skin). See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Leather Making) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.
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