flashers

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There, fleshers, using long curved blades, would rub the remaining fat and connective tissue off the inside of the pelt.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2022

The shoulder-blades, lashed to a wooden handle, formed axes, hoes, and fleshers.

From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by Grinnell, George Bird

It would seem the exterior Selenites I saw were, indeed, mostly engaged in kindred occupations—mooncalf herds, butchers, fleshers, and the like.

From The First Men in the Moon by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

There was also the usual strife between the gildry and the craftsmen, who were generally prohibited from trading, and of whom dyers, fleshers and shoemakers were forbidden to enter the gildry.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various

They used spades, rimmers, borers, celts, axes, fleshers, scrapers, pestles, and other implements whose use cannot now be determined, made of various stones, such as porphyry, greenstone, and feldspar.

From The Nation in a Nutshell by Towle, George M. (George Makepeace)