the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who strips off the skin.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who flays.
Word Usage
"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."