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noun

Flesher n.

A butcher. "A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down."

A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flesher" Quotes from Famous Books

... flesher; and right before the window was a large stone, on which old wives with their weans would sometimes take a rest; so what does I, when I saw the whole hobble-shaw coming fleeing down the street, with the kick-ba' at their noses, but up I speels upon the stone (I was a wee chap with a daidley, ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir

... got her fish laid at the bottom of the creel, she next went to the "flesher" for her butcher-meat. There was no higgling here, for the meat was sold at the ordinary market price. Then came the poultry stratum; then the vegetables, or fruits in their season; and, finally, there was "the floore"—a bunch of flowers; not a costly bouquet, but ...

— James Nasmyth's Autobiography • James Nasmyth