excoriator

excoriator , flayer, skinner. b fleecer (fig.), despoiler. 1198 Robertus de Riflei [est] ~or animalium Pl. K. or J. II 6; Turstan Pigace ~or est bidentium in Beston’ Ib. II 30; 1282 ~oribus bourn KR Ac 4/3; 1285 jus ‥ habent in ‥ textoribus, ~oribus, carnificibus [etc.] RGasc II 274.  b spiritualium tonsores ovium, vel potius ~ores Gir. GE II 34; homo inprobus et injustus et ~or pauperum hominum Brakelond 124; 1238 (v. exossator).