efflower

Verb

efflower (third-person singular simple present efflowers, present participle efflowering, simple past and past participle efflowered)

1. (rare) To graze; (leatherworking) to remove the outer surface of (a skin) with a knife.
   • Chamois or Shamoy leather.—The skins are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned as above described. They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon the convex horse-beam.1864, Andrew Ure, “A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines”, in Leather, volume II
   • In the pregnant bounds / Of delicatest breath, that but efflowers the ear / And lapses into nothingness[.]1913, John Galen Howard, “From olive groves of academe”, in University of California Chronicle, page 101