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Hogskin

Hogskin \Hog"skin`\, n. Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively.

Usage examples of "hogskin".

They wore round caps, boots of hogskin drawn over their naked feet, and belts of raw hide, in which they stuck their sabres and knives.

And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweatbewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.

And all this was due, not to my royal lineage, nor to the deeds I had done and the champions I had overthrown, but to a certain hogskin belt buckled next the skin.

So I gathered my belongings together, cinched my hogskin belt tight about me, and went away to my own country.

There were ristras of dried fruit and pepĀ­pers and clusters of tinware that hung like chimes and there were hogskins filled with pulque that swung from the beams like bloated swine in a knacker's yard.