What is "pigskin"

Usage examples of "pigskin".

Holding a pigskin glove in his left hand, he nodded to Scrimshaw and extended his hand to Morse.

Hobbs received the snapback, Roy Yellin pulled, and there I was with the football, the pigskin, and it was planted once more in my belly and I was running to daylight, to starlight, and getting hit again by Mallon, by number 55, by their middle linebacker, by fivefive, snorting as he hit me, an idiotically lyrical moment.

Mrs Verloc, undoing some hooks of her bodice, while she went on staring ahead beyond the splashboard, handed over to him the new pigskin pocket-book.

On his head he wore a bowler, set very straight, and on his hands some pale unsoiled pigskin gloves.

I bought ten dozen bamboo blowguns with pigskin quivers, four bamboo darts in each quiver.

Figures writhed in his mind, Germans melting into burning villagers into shadowed figures in robes and turbans with long knives into prisoners sewn into raw pigskins and left in the desert sun.

This morning, his color scheme was off-white, from the cream-colored taband binding his damp hair back, down through a wan sieved pigskin tunic, down to heavy silk trousers gathered tightly at waist and bloused at the ankles over lambskin boots.

An assortment of six-inch-high capital letter T's, made from cloth, mounted under glass, along with a corny photo of the seventeen-year-old Cozzano, pigskin tucked under one arm, other arm held out like a jouster's lance to straight-arm an imaginary linebacker from Arcola or Rantoul.

Horn books bound with pigskin, their library chains still attached, would be worth a good few coins apiece, but Ash quickly rejected them.

Snufflebags and pigskin water buckets had been packed away, and all that was left of the meal they had eaten was a handful of brown apple cores in the snow.

With the deflated pigskin skewered on his pitchfork, he ran straight through the oncoming Tarheels, blasted his way through the Blue Devils, charged alone up the field into the Blue Devil end zone, and did a victory dance that involved gestures someone managed to cover with strategically placed boxes.

She was wearing a double-breasted scarlet coat with brass buttons, gray flannel slacks, pigskin clog sandals, and no stockings.

There was also the flat dry cell battery from a bull's eye lantern, and a travelling-clock in a pigskin case.

Randy gives her the flowers, like a quarterback handing off the pigskin to a runner.

From his right hand hung a heavy pigskin valise, from his left a black Malacca cane with a silver mount.