fleshing

noun, flesh | ‘flesh’: muscular substance between the skin and bones of an animal or a human (COD); used specifically in the context of the production of meat and animal byproducts

“They cut all the fleshing off it, and then you start working on leather.”

“He’d take them [the hides] out of his cart, and he took the fleshing off and put them on another cart, and then they went out in the factory.”

“Of course if you take a hide, there’s always a lot of grease between the hide and the- and you call that fleshing.”

“Once there was some fellows there eating their lunch and he said ‘That stuff there, the fleshing’ he said, ‘they make margarine out of it’. The fellow said, ‘I’m not going to eat margarine again’. Well of course they didn’t make any margarine out of it, but they used it for soaps and stuff maybe. You added lard maybe.”