Flay
[fleɪ] or [fle]
Definition
(v. t.) To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.
Edited by Dwight
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Skin, excoriate, strip the skin from.
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Definition
v.t. to strip off the skin:—pr.p. flay′ing; pa.p. flayed.—ns. Flay′er; Flay′-flint a skinflint.
Typist: Mabel
Examples
- The guard at the bridge walked a way up the line toward where flay, then turned and went back toward the bridge. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Would he have quartered him --flayed him? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In 277 the reigning monarch had him crucified and his body, for some unknown reason, flayed, and there began a fierce persecution of his adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A flayed rabbit is as well covered as a bear in comparison. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We have already mentioned (chap, xxxi, § 5) the Persian Mani who was crucified and flayed in the year 277. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The travellers who first met them after their good service at Torquilstone would have a woeful flaying. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
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