Flay (Verb)
Meaning
Strip the skin off.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- The buffalo hide was flayed to be made into leather for saddles and belts.
- She learned to flay a rabbit as part of her survival course in the wilderness.
- Early taxidermists used to flay animals before mounting them in lifelike poses.
- The painful process of being flayed alive was often used as a medieval form of execution.
- In some ancient rituals, a sacrificial animal would be flayed and offered to the gods.