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skin·ner

(skĭn′ər)

1. One that flays, dresses, or sells animal skins.

2. A mule driver.

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skinner

(ˈskɪnə)

(Tanning) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins

Skinner

(ˈskɪnə)

(Biography) B(urrhus) F(rederic). 1904–90, US behavioural psychologist. His "laws of learning", derived from experiments with animals, have been widely applied to education and behaviour therapy

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skin•ner

(ˈskɪn ər)

n.

1. one that skins.

2. a person who prepares or deals in skins or hides.

3. a person who drives draft animals, as mules.

[1350–1400]

Skin•ner

(ˈskɪn ər)

n.

1. B(urrhus) F(rederic), 1904–90, U.S. psychologist.

2. Cornelia Otis, 1901–79, U.S. actress.

3. her father, Otis, 1858–1942, U.S. actor.

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Noun	1.	Skinner - United States actor (1858-1942) Otis Skinner
	2.	Skinner - United States actress noted for her one-woman shows (1901-1979) Cornelia Otis Skinner
	3.	Skinner - United States psychologist and a leading proponent of behaviorism (1904-1990) B. F. Skinner, Burrhus Frederic Skinner, Fred Skinner
	4.	skinner - a person who prepares or deals in animal skins skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills
	5.	skinner - a worker who drives mules mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer laborer, labourer, manual laborer, jack - someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor

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skinner

n (removing skins) → Abdecker(in) m(f); (preparing skins) → Gerber(in) m(f)

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Skinner ushered his visitor into a somewhat bare-looking office, smelling strongly of stale tobacco smoke.

Skinner remarked, spitting upon the floor, "but you're dead right."

Skinner read it through, and spat once more upon the floor.

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Skinner, gathering up the reins in her pudgy hands.

Skinner. But there was not a glint of humor on that lady's face.

She come to see me last week and says, says she, `Sarah Skinner, I envy you.

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I've six of 'em, and only one earns anything; I am on the stand fourteen or sixteen hours a day, and I haven't had a Sunday these ten or twelve weeks; you know Skinner never gives a day if he can help it, and if I don't work hard, tell me who does!

"Just snuffed out," said the other; "he died at four o'clock this morning; all yesterday he was raving -- raving about Skinner, and having no Sundays.

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Perhaps Skinner Leason, the express agent, moved a truck the length of the station plat- form.

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The Skinners were here last year -- I wish they were here now."

I have been saying how glad I should be if the Skinners were here this winter instead of last; or if the Parrys had come, as they talked of once, she might have danced with George Parry.

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Know then that though there may be peace between our own provinces and the French, yet within the marches of France there is always war, for the country is much divided against itself, and is furthermore harried by bands of flayers, skinners, Brabacons, tardvenus, and the rest of them.