When someone flays an animal or person, they remove their skin, usually when they are dead. They had to flay the great, white, fleecy animals and cut them up for food
To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth
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[ 'flA ] (transitive verb.) before 12th century. Middle English flen, from Old English flEan; akin to Old Norse flA to flay, Lithuanian plesti to tear.