different between outspin vs outskin

English

Etymology

From out- +? spin.

Verb

outspin (third-person singular simple present outspins, present participle outspinning, simple past and past participle outspun)

1. (transitive) To spin out; finish; exhaust.
   • 1999, Jean Fritz, Margot Tomes, Homesick, my own story:

     […] again and again as if she could not tear herself away, yet each time dancing farther forward, swaying to and fro. Finally, her arms raised, she began twirling around, faster and faster, as if she were trying to outspin time itself.

   • 2006, Karen DeYoung, Soldier: the life of Colin Powell:

     His protective senior staff decided the secretary was being outspun.

2. (transitive) To exceed in spinning; exceed in spinning thread.
   • 1851, Edward Young, Night thoughts on life, death and immortality:

     As if we could outspin the Fatal Sisters.

   • 2007, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Lady of Avalon:

     Old Cigfolla, who despite stiff joints could outspin any of them, drew out a fine thread of flax.

Anagrams

• Toupins, nip-outs, pinouts, sit upon, sit-upon, spin out, spinout, spoutin', unipots

English

Etymology

From out- +? skin.

Noun

outskin (plural outskins)

1. An outer skin; surface.
   • 1884, Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine (volume 8)

     One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned.

   • 1962, Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24:

     Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly […]

   • 2005, Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar:

     Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman […]

2. (anatomy) The external skin.
   • 1938, George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158:

     They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […]

3. A skin or pelt of some special description.

Verb

outskin (third-person singular simple present outskins, present participle outskinning, simple past and past participle outskinned)

1. (transitive) To surpass in skinning.
   • 2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses:

     There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.