English: occupational name for someone who stripped the hide from
animals, to be used in the production of fur garments or to be tanned
for leather, from an agent derivative of Middle English skin
‘hide’, ‘pelt’ (Old Norse skinn).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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