Search for crossword answers and clues

Answer for the clue "Actor Otis ", 7 letters:
skinner

Alternative clues for the word skinner

Word definitions for skinner in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A Skinner is a person who skins animals such as cattle , sheep , and pigs , part or whole. Historically, skinners engaged in the hide and fur trades. "Mule skinner" (or "muleskinner"), is slang for muleteer , a driver or wrangler of mules.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skinner \Skin"ner\, n. One who skins. One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.

Usage examples of skinner.

And, clad in his new raiment, Walter Skinner sat back in his chair and gazed pompously around.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Jardine, Quintin Gallery whispers - A Bob Skinner mystery 1.

Dauboeuf, Garraway, Hemming, Skinner, and Cobner mention roseola and scarlatiniform erythema after minute doses of quinin.

Bekwa Skinner, with four-inch sauroid teeth through the lobes of his ears, face a mass of scars, some ritual, and crossed belts of huge brass shells on his chest.

Thanks, too, to my oldest and closest friend, Peter Marshall, with whom I have weathered many storms, and to Rob Gardner, Joseph and Sherry Jahoda, Roel Oostra, Joseph and Laura Schor, Niven Sinclair, Colin Skinner and Clem Vallance, all of whom gave me good advice.

Skinner argued that the child, or animal, was at birth virtually a tabula rasa, physiologically competent, but behaviorally an empty slate on which experience would cut the grooves that would determine all subsequent patterns of function.

Otherwise Skinners Farm might have witnessed another and even bloodier murder.

I immediately communicated with Majors Skinner and Cattley that I had been relieved.

To board the Skinner, the dogs were removed from their crates, which were hoisted onto the ship and placed in one row on each side of the deck and faced outward.

If Skinner and Pavlov were reductionists, the gestaltists were holistic.

Mr Skinner may argue in his defence that someone found their way into his office to hide the Guernsey receipt in his desk.

Skinner was hailed by a lime-burner from the pits over by Hankey and asked if he was looking for his hens.

Robert Morgan Skinner, born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, on April 7, 1951.

Skinner walked with casual purpose as he approached the moaners, who one by one stopped dancing and fell silent.

Like Pavlov, Skinner was a materialist, anxious to eliminate mind from his psychological equations, and his materialism, also like that of Pavlov, is mechanical and reductionist.