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Flask material
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goatskin
Alternative clues for the word goatskin
Word definitions for goatskin in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the hide of a goat
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Goatskin may refer to: Goatskin (material) , the skin of a goat or the leather made from it Goatskin (container) , a container for wine
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from goat + skin (n.).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The skin of a goat. 2 A liquid container (especially of wine or water) made from goat leather. 3 (context Ireland colloquial English) a bodhran drum.
Usage examples of goatskin.
She slipped her hand beneath his heel and lifted his leg, removing the remains of his legging and in its place put a soft goatskin, tucking the edges underneath until it craddled the wounded member and held it steady.
He had changed his uniform for a goatskin, wore hobnailed shoes, a belt full of pistols, and carried a heavy carbine.
A great hand came down, caught the front of his tattered goatskin vest, hoicked, and slammed him to his feet.
The lycanthropist dashes out of a window, springs into a well, and, after having struggled in the water for a few moments, rises from it, dripping, and invested with a goatskin which the devil has given him.
A motorcar drove slowly down the street, and it was a grey De Dion Bouton, with the driver wearing a goatskin jacket and goggles, at the steering wheel.
He who was named Jacob, after the great man in the Bible of whom your father, the Predikant, used to tell us, that one who was so slim and dressed himself up in a goatskin and gave his brother mealie porridge when he was hungry, after he had come in from shooting buck, Baas, and got his farm and cattle, Baas, and then went to Heaven up a ladder, Baas.
Hanse called, unshipping the carefully balanced and pleasantly sloshy goatskin bags from the onager even while he imitated him.
Inside the box were hundreds of loose condoms in different colors and shapes, lubricated, unlubricated, some of genuine goatskin.
Soldiers marched in, escorting strings of mules carrying chests of gold and silver, goatskins filled with bezoar stones, and bales of vicuna wool.
In the meantime he could wait, and scowling beneath the hood of his burnoose he strode away to his goatskin tent.
A pouch of hairy goatskin hung from his leather girdle, and a staff of twisted olivewood rested in the crook of his arm.
Brutus would have handled even those goatskins with more care than he did me.
Martins and finches, goatskins and ram skins, dates, filberts, walnuts, salted sturgeon tails, round pepper, ginger, saffron, cloves, nutmegs, spike, cardamoms, scammony, manna, lac, zedoary, incense, quicksilver, copper, amber, pounding pearls, borax, gum arabic, sweetmeats, gold wire, wines, dragon's blood rubies, loaded dice, and beautiful dancing girls.
Although most of the water and other supplies were laden on the pack camels, the riding dromedaries also bore a goatskin of water apiece and a minor amount of other goods as well, for as HalĂd had said, "If the pack camels manage to run away, we would not wish to lose all things needed to survive.
When he scuttled up close he was moving with his cheek almost against the hair of the goatskin on his side.