fleshing
SayFLESH-ing/ˈflɛʃɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of flesh.
The writer spent weeks fleshing out the minor characters in her novel.
Fleshing the hide is the first step before the leather can be tanned.
Note
An -ing form doing two jobs: after be it is a participle (the falconer was fleshing his hawk), and as a subject or object it names the activity, as in a tannery, where fleshing is the step that strips flesh from a hide. Because nearly every sense of flesh is transitive, both uses normally carry an object: fleshing a hound, fleshing a sword, fleshing the hide.
fleshing is a form of flesh
flesh, verb: To scrape the residual muscle, fat, and tissue from the inner side of a hide during leather production. Full entry
- Spelling
- flesh → fleshing: add -ing
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