[f. FELL sb.1 + MONGER.] A dealer in skins or hides of animals, esp. sheep-skins.
1530. Palsgr., 219/2. Felmongar, megissier.
1681. Otway, Soldier’s Fort., IV. i. An overgrown Deputy of the Ward, tho’ a frouzy Fellmonger.
1834. Brit. Husb., I. 423. Fellmongers’ poake … is the waste arising from the preparation of skins.
1869. Blackmore, Lorna D., ii. Some of then were shopkeepers’ sons, young grocers, fell-mongers, and poulterers.
Hence Fellmongery, the craft or calling of a fellmonger; in quot. attrib.
1759. B. Martin, Nat. Hist. Eng., I. 393. Likewise a good Trade in the Felmongery Business.
