efflower

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife.

   “Chamois or Shamoy leather.—The skins are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned as above described. They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon the convex horse-beam.”