Crossword clues for waterskin
waterskin
Wiktionary
n. The skin of a goat used as a container for water
WordNet
n. a container of skin for holding water [syn: water skin]
Wikipedia
A waterskin is a receptacle used to hold water. Normally made of a sheep or cow bladder, it retains water naturally and therefore was very useful in desert crossings until the invention of the canteen. It is still used in some developing nations. Though it may have been used over 5000 years ago by tribal peoples, the first pictures of it are from ancient Assyrians, who used the bladders as floats in 3000 B.C. It also was used by large ancient empires such as Rome before the advent of the canteen.
Modern waterskins are often made of various plastic or rubber impregnated canvases, or sometimes simply thicker transparent plastics, and are often called water-pouches, water bags, or water bladders. Such modern waterskins offer many features, such as detachable straw-hoses, valves, refill openings of various widths, various closures and handles, styles of covering or cases, and removable cases or carry pouches.
Usage examples of "waterskin".
Yakoub was about to ask where Caraya was, when he saw her returning from the spring with a dripping waterskin.
Then the girl drank greedily until Collum shouldered her aside so that he might fill their waterskins.
Then some of the younger Cords hurried forward with their trenchers, carrying food and drink to the circles, while others brought waterskins so that the sitting Ramen and their guests could wash their hands.
When the younger Cords had passed around more water for the washing of hands, they cleared away the trenchers and waterskins.
He took a long drink from the waterskin Maba offered him, then handed it to Matilda.
Karsa checked his supplies one last time, the foodstuffs and waterskins, the additional items and accoutrements necessary for survival in a hot, arid land.
When he had rehung the waterskin, he sighed once, then turned toward Fahrooq, smiling tiredly.
He watched as the sepoys hurried back to their ranks and as the first pucka lees appeared from the nearby Kaitna with their huge loads of canteens and waterskins.
People came and went here with jars, with waterskins, and crowded close not only about the drinking basin but about those troughs below it that were meant for beasts.
They had filled their waterskins at a public well on their way out of he village, but with a journey as long as they had ahead of them, Ryana knew that it would not be enough.
The slopes behind him would provide the last forage and water for the horse until just this side of the Whirlwind Wall, so he would spend time here bundling grasses for the journey, as well as refilling the waterskins from the spring ten paces from the camp.
Burdened beneath a pack heavy with food and waterskins, he continued to sweat as the air chilled.
Within a couple of hours the Argo was coming ashore, her captain meaning to once more refill the collection of water jugs and jars and waterskins.
Merisa had to snatch the waterskin to safety as Caraya flew into Yakoub's arms.
It had the same weighty amorphous shape as a monstrous waterskin, but was so large that it covered the entire side of the dune, large enough to engulf and squash not only the three chariots below it but an entire regiment.