Crossword clues for goatskin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goatskin \Goat"skin`\, n. The skin of a goat, or leather made from it. -- a. Made of the skin of a goat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
WordNet
n. the hide of a goat
Wikipedia
Goatskin may refer to:
- Goatskin (material), the skin of a goat or the leather made from it
- Goatskin (container), a container for wine
Goatskin refers to the skin of a goat, which by long term usage, is denoted by the term Morocco leather. Kidskin, used for gloves, shoes and other accessories, is traditionally goatskin, although other leathers such as sheep and kangaroo can be used to make kid.
Tanned leather from goatskin is considered extremely durable and is commonly used to make rugs (for example in Indonesia) and carpet binding. It is often used for gloves, boots, and other products that require a soft hide. Kid gloves, popular in Victorian times, are still made today. It has been a major material for leather bookbindings for centuries, and the oldest European binding, that of the St Cuthbert Gospel in the British Library is in red goatskin. Goatskin is used for a traditional Spanish container for wine bota bag (or called goatskin). Traditional kefir was made in bags from goatskin.
Non tanned goatskin is used for parchment or for drumheads or sounding boards of some musical instruments, e.g., mišnice in medieval Europe, bodhrán in Ireland, esraj in India and for instrumental drum skin named bedug in Indonesia.
In Roman mythology priests of god Lupercalia wore goatskins.
A breed of goat that provides high-quality skin is for example the Black Bengal breed, native to Bangladesh.
In 1974, there was controversy in the United States surrounding goatskin products originating in Haiti. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control discovered that some of these products contained deadly anthrax spores. All Haitian goatskin products in the USA were recalled, although no fatalities were reported.
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 Halíd 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.