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Skin(n)ar, -er, n. Also: skyn(n)ar, -er, skynnar(r)e, -air, -eir, -or, skynarr, sken(n)ar. [ME and e.m.E. skynner (Trevisa), skinner (1572); Skin n. 2. Cf. ON skinnari.] A skinner.In use as a surname from the 14th c. See Black Surnames, s.v. Skinner. ‘Sym Skynnar’, in 1513 Doug. viii Prol. 133 and 1560 Rolland Seven S. Ane Schort Schawing 49, may have been the public hangman.For many further examples, see the Index to 14.. Acts XII s.v. Skinner.(a) c1420 Wynt. viii 6162.
All war in Frawns, Bot sowteris, skynneris [c. skynnoris, W. skinnaris], or marchawns 14.. Acts I 336/2.
Of skynnaris [it is said] … that thai file the kingis watter 14.. Acts I 336/2.
Off the chalance of skynnaris … that thai mak gluvis and vther graith or ther lethir be kindely wrocht and maid 1442 Mill Mediæv. Plays 116.
The skynnarez sal fynd twa bischopes 1456 Hay I 208/10.
That a noble marchand of Paris suld … move plede before him that is a soutare, or a skynnare, or a tailloure 1473 Treas. Acc. I 18.
Gevin to a skynner for the lyning of lamskinnis to the kingis jackat of sating 1488 Treas. Acc. I 92.
To the skynnar of Lythgow for halkgluvis to the king 1505 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 107.
That the furrouris and skynneris dicht nor schaik their skynis on the hie gaitt … for till eschew the evil sawour thairof 1518 Edinb. Hammermen 97b.
To ane skynner for puttin one of the couering one the mes buk iij d. 1581 Burne Disput. 153b.
Ve affirme … that soutaris, tailȝeouris, and skynnaris may vndirstand him [sc. St. Paul] veil aneuch 1584 Acts III 360/2.
Skynnair 1612–13 Misc. Spald. C. V 89.
Eduard Reid, skinner, [convict] for eattling to draw ane dagger to Alex^r. Gray 1615 Misc. New Spald. C. I 115.
Skynneir 1642 Elgin Rec. II 241.
Compeired [two persons] as commissionars from the skiners, desyring ane coume above their dask 1656 Lanark B. Rec. 156.
Skinarpossess. 1500 Conv. Burghs I 506.
The provost … chairgit the hale skynnaris craft that thai occupie na merchandice 1547 Treas. Acc. IX 84.
To the skynnarres boy in drinksilver for my lorde governoures gluffis 1618 Edinb. Test L 41.
Ane pair of skinneris scheiris price thrie schillingis 1647 Edinb. Test. LXIII 30.
Ane hundereth pund wecht of skinners threid 1681 Blackness Customs MS 41b.
Six pair of skinners sheyrs(b) 1471–2 Aberd. Acc. fol. 3b.
iij skynarris(c) 1516 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 39.
Skenar

b. attrib.(1) 1592 Edinb. Test. XXIV 296b.
Ane pak of skynner claytht contenand xvj^xx elnis 1615 Edinb. Test. XLVIII 214.
In his skynner buithis ten pair of staig ledder gluifis [etc.] 1652 Edinb. B. Rec. VIII 297.
William Carmichell skinner to remove fra that skinner buith occupyit be him(2) 1571 Whitelaw Sc. Arms Makers 299.
Four dousane of skynner gluvis 1578 Edinb. Test. VI 243b.
Foure dosane of skynner gluvis price of the dosane … x s.(3) 1599 Edinb. B. Rec. V 247.
The deykin and brether of the skynners to se that na skynner wark be sawld … upoun the hie streitts 1599 Edinb. B. Rec. V 249.
[The Council] fynds that the garnessing and brodering of purses with silk or gold is na skynner wark 1630 Edinb. B. Rec. VII 83.
That na skynner worke be sauld within this burgh upone the streittes or publict plaicis

c. comb. 1539 Reg. Privy S. II 471/2.
Andro Kynnyrus, skynnar boy in Dunde 1609 Perth Kirk S. in J. P. Lawson The Book of Perth 249.
They found some skinner boys playing into the North Inch in time of preaching