title: Skinner (profession)
text: # Skinner (profession)
  
  A skinner is a person who skins animals such as cattle, sheep, and pigs, part or whole. Historically, skinners engaged in the hide and fur trades.
  
  "Mule skinner" (or "muleskinner") is slang for muleteer, a driver or wrangler of mules.
  
  