flesher (flesher)

[Also in Sc. formerly flesh our, fleschour (= G. fleischer ); Na flesh our sall slay ony beast, or sell flesh, in time of nicht. Sir J. Balfour , Pract. Leg. Burg., p. 72. Hard by a flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay , Virgin i us. 21. An executioner. [Scotch.] The pepill had na litill indignacioun that this Marcius suld rise sa haistelie to be thair new fleschour and skurgeare, or to have ony power of life or deith abone thame. Bellenden, tr. of Livy, p. 160. 3. In leather - manuf., one who fleshes hides.4. A tool used to flesh hides. The spring pating fleshers measure about seventeen inches between the handles. C. T. Davis , Leather, p. 309.