skin back

verb

Retract (an envelope of skin or flesh, or an analogous protective sheath).

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Meanings

verbskin back (third-person singular simple present skins back, present participle skinning back, simple past and past participle skinned back)

present singular third person skins back · participle present skinning back · participle past skinned back · past skinned back

  1. ambitransitiveRetract (an envelope of skin or flesh, or an analogous protective sheath).

    He hacked at the head, skinning back the lips to get at the teeth.

    2010, Billie Sue Mosiman, chapter 19, in Gold Rush Dream, self-published
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    Check piston rod for scoring by skinning back protective rubber boot.

    1963 December, Morton J. Schultz, “Keep the Power in Power Steering” in Popular Mechanics (Popular Mechanics Company), ed. Don Dinwiddie, volume 120, № 6, page 168

    Proceed rearward from the incision at the anus, cutting the anal canal just above the opening and skinning back to the point just forward of the tail quills.

    1969, Gerald J. Grantz, Home Book of Taxidermy and Tanning (Stackpole Books), chapter 4: “Mounting Birds”, pages 65–66

    “I’ve never touched a man before,” Kyle whispered, skinning back the foreskin.

    2006, Mark Wildyr, “Survivor”, in John Patrick, John Butler, editors, Wild + Willing, STARbooks Press, page 243
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