flay

«flay» in Mova's school dictionary: to strip the skin off it — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (flays, flayed, flaying)

meaning for a pupil

1) To flay an animal is to strip the skin off it. tree →

2) (old use, cruel) To flay a person is to punish them by stripping off their skin. tree →

sense in the lessons

in old tales, a cruel punishment, or the work of skinning a calf after it is killed

examples

• Let him be flayed alive, or burnt at a slow fire. tree →
• What you smell so must be the calf which I have just now killed and flayed. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• And he shall flay the burnt-offering, and cut it into its pieces.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «flay» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.