Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The skin of a goat.
- noun Leather made from a goatskin.
- noun A container, as for wine, made from a goatskin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The detached skin of the goat, with or without the hair.
- noun Tanned or tawed leather from the skin of the goat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The skin of a goat, or leather made from it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
liquid container (especially of wine or water) made fromgoat leather . - noun Ireland, colloquial a
bodhran drum.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the hide of a goat
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sometimes the memory of the past is very strong upon me, and I forget that I am a dirty old man, clad in goatskin, wandering with my savage grandsons who are goatherds in the primeval wilderness.
Page 5 2010
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Also received by Palin: jewelry made from renewable materials, a piece of stained glass, a custom Bible hand bound in goatskin leather, more than two dozen books and some cds.
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Sometimes the memory of the past is very strong upon me, and I forget that I am a dirty old man, clad in goatskin, wandering with my savage grandsons who are goatherds in the primeval wilderness.
The Scarlet Plague 1912
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I was feverish, and on occasion I drank sparingly of water from a stinking goatskin.
Chapter 12 2010
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And my hands were soft, because I did no work with them, and my body was clean all over and dressed in the softest garments -- He surveyed his mangy goatskin with disgust.
Page 3 2010
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Holding it far above his head, Hassan tipped it back so that the water shot out of the tiny spout and directly into his open mouth, like wine from a medieval goatskin.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Holding it far above his head, Hassan tipped it back so that the water shot out of the tiny spout and directly into his open mouth, like wine from a medieval goatskin.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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This goatskin I kept hanging in the sun that the stench of the skin might increase and that there might be no refreshment of coolness in the water.
Chapter 12 2010
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There were no fingers being snapped, so I was forced tolearn the patterns and call of the foreign goatskin instrument.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop Sasha Brookner 2012
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There were no fingers being snapped, so I was forced tolearn the patterns and call of the foreign goatskin instrument.
Sasha Brookner: Sabar: African Hip-Hop Sasha Brookner 2012
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