Definition of "flayer" [flay•er]

• One who or that which flays (noun)

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• "Perhaps the most influential flayer of human skin was not a bookbinder, shaman, plastinator, or organ dealer but rather one Ed Gein, a diminutive and seemingly unremarkable resident of windswept Plainfield, Wisconsin, population 889."
• "He could imagine the thousands watching grimly while the flayer used his knife."
• "I have to tell you that my impression of you in my childhood and youth was that you were a flayer of human skin, a demon who picked flesh from human bones."