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fellmonger

[ fel-mong-ger, -muhng- ]

noun

Chiefly British.
  1. a preparer of skins or hides of animals, especially sheepskins, prior to leather making.


fellmonger

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noun

  1. a person who deals in animal skins or hides
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Derived Forms

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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of fellmonger1

First recorded in 1520–30; fell 4 + monger
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Example Sentences

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John Cockes, fellmonger, buys 287 “shorling felles,†at 3s. the dozen, 190 “skynnes of wynter felles†at 6s. the dozen, 77 “skynnes somerfelles†at 8s. the dozen, for a total for £10. 18s. 1d.

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West Yorkshire Police said the 26-year-old had been outside the Fellmonger pub on North Parkway at about 2345 BST when the attack happened.

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Henry Allenby, son of a fellmonger, Mr. Richard Allenby, residing near the Wong, and having a tanyard on the Lincoln Road, became an assistant chemist at St. Albans. 

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There must have been considerable division of the various trades even before the Conquest, and each trade must have inhabited a separate quarter; for we find at Winchester, or elsewhere, in the reign of Æthelred, Fellmonger, Horsemonger, Fleshmonger, Shieldwright, Shoewright, Turner, and Salter Streets.

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I once read the letter of a contemporary of HOBBES, where I found that this great philosopher, when a lad, used to ride on packs of skins to market, to sell them for his father, who was a fellmonger; and that in the market-place he thus early began to vent his private opinions, which long afterwards so fully appeared in his writings.

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