skinning

While Leonardo is in Rome, skinning corpses, Francis I passes through town.

That suggests use as a trophy or lion-skin rug, rather than a simple byproduct of skinning the animal for food.

After you kill your birds, you skin them—you have to be good at skinning as well as at shooting—and you line them up on a string.

This means skinning the dead calf and placing its hide on the living calf.

Underestimated, manipulative, impulsive, she’s as comfortable skinning a rabbit as she is defrosting a roast.