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n. (plural of skinner English)
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Skinners may refer to:
- Skinner (profession)
- Skinners, California, community in El Dorado County
- Worshipful Company of Skinners, one of the Great 12 Livery Companies of the City of London
- The Skinners' School, in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
- Skinners Pond, Prince Edward Island, rural area of Prince Edward Island, Canada
- The Buffalo Skinners, album by Scottish band Big Country
- Skinner's Case, dispute between the House of Lords and the House of Commons
- Skinners Brewery, producer of Authentic Cornish Ales
- Skinner, a type of Victorian-era thief who specialized in stealing clothing from children.
Usage examples of "skinners".
And for the Skinners to come south, southwest into the Peninsula, southeast into the Colony.
I've got to go drop by on the Skinners, before they forget why they're here and decide to burn down the city on a whim.
The camp up ahead contained half his Skinners, it would be an offense against the patron Avatars of the Army to call them a battalion of soldiers .
Raj said: that was no breach of etiquette among Skinners, they could gorge and then go for days without a bite, as indifferent to hunger as they were to any other physical discomfort.
On the whole, he wished that the Minister of Barbarians had been a little less efficient in moving the Skinners across the Civil Government and down to the frontier.
Most troops benefited from extra training, but if you kept Skinners in one place too long all they did was rot.
The Skinners looked around them, bewildered: one stood and began reciting his deeds and those of his ancestors, starting with the last man he had killed.
The Skinners on either side of the redoubt were firing their massive rifles, into the air or at the backs of the retreating Colonists.
If nothing else, it got them out of the path of fire from the Skinners to the right of the redoubt faster .
The right-wing Skinners were on the move, boiling out of their trenches and climbing the roof of the redoubt.
Two Skinners in the portable iron cage, both bleeding from half a dozen cuts and sporting spectacular young bruises.
The Skinners struggled for a moment as the squad hustled them toward the dangling loops, then began singing in a high-pitch chanting wail, their death-songs.
He could see clots of them eddying about, some dancing in shuffling circles, barking and wailing, others talking with the wild gesticulations Skinners used when they were upset.
The Skinners were shouting again now, and a few random shots banged into the air.
They had been gone before the Skinners arrived, driving the stock up into the hills.