verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To flay; strip; peel. dialectal, obsolete, transitive

Etymology

From Middle English biflean, from Old English beflēan (“to peel, skin, flay”), equivalent to be- + flay.

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