fellmongery
/ˈfɛlˌmʌŋɡəri/
noun
- The business or process of preparing animal skins (especially sheepskins) for use as leather by removing the wool and treating the hide.
- Modern fellmongery uses chemicals to speed up the process of removing wool from sheepskins.
- He learned fellmongery from his grandfather, who had worked in the trade for fifty years.
- The town's economy once depended on fellmongery, with dozens of tanneries along the river.