A dealer in hides or skins, particularly sheepskins.
this gateway was used by a fellmonger for drying wool
Example sentencesExamples
He added material about the town's two ancient guilds, the Fellmongers and Haberdashers.
The Day Fair was another important event for the fellmonger, and for the town itself as a centre of the tanned hides industry.
There were big wagons carrying cotton bales to the mills from the enormous railway warehouses on Manchester Road and dripping hides from the fellmonger's to the tannery.
There were three other dressers/tanners and a sole fellmonger in Scotland.
In 1931 he married Ethel, daughter of a fellmonger.
The directories provide an invaluable insight into trades long gone, including curled hair manufacturers, curiosity dealers, feather cleaners, fellmongers, saddlers, and salt merchants.
It was built c1857 for the brewing family, and until recently was the fellmongers' works.
verbˈfɛlmʌŋɡə
[with object]Australian
Remove (wool) from a sheepskin.
1,100 bales of wool have been fellmongered on the premises
Example sentencesExamples
This wool is not recorded as production until fellmongered in Australia.
These skins were fellmongered and processed for nappa production.
In those days the chief business of the firm was 'fellmongering'.
Negotiations are continuing on a deal that could see toll processing of pelts and a rationalization of the southern meat processors' fellmongering operation.
The shoemaking business began as a small side line from fellmongering, woolstapling, and tanning.