Definition of skin:

part of speech: verb

To strip the hide or covering from; to flay; to cover with skin; to acquire a skin.

Usage examples:

• " Ain't you going with us," Charley Saunders asked, " and help skin them steers?" Earl Wayland Bowman in "The Ramblin' Kid".

• He found the frog's skin and threw it into a big fire. Maurice Baring in "The Blue Rose Fairy Book".

• Papa would give twenty dollars for such a skin Captain Mayne Reid in "The Boy Hunters".

• As the outer skin comes off, it is declared, the four legs, now under it, can be distinctly seen. G. Whitfield Ray in "Through Five Republics on Horseback".