What is "wineskin"

Usage examples of "wineskin".

Countess of Auvergne, who attempts to dominate him in the spirit of a heroic Amazonian woman out of history and legend, Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae, who slew Cyrus the Great and ordered his head to be placed in a wineskin filled wit h blood.

No one could have made out the figure standing there, silently watching the merrymaking, not even the Bolg guards who flanked the Rise, passing a wineskin between them.

Ricote, transformed from a Morisco into a German or Teuton, took out his own wineskin, comparable in size to the other five.

Now I could see that many of those in the crowd had garlands on their heads, or carried wineskins, and I began to realize that the fervent souls who were singing behind me were going to be frustrated in their desire for martyrdom.

I could see skiers gathered in the dark, toking up and passing wineskins while hooting.

And I don't want to talk about it,' muttered Bemar, hurling aside the wineskin.

We sailed through the morning, and while our captors talked among themselves and drank from wineskins and the water stoup from time to time, none of them spoke so much as a word to any of us nor offered us anything to drink.

That and the wineskin dropped by Abaka Khan, who in the fury of battle had seen me crawl into my hole to escape death.

In addition to the horses, he gave them plenty of food, full wineskins, cooking utensils, a short sword for each of them, and bedding that seemed luxurious compared to the thin blankets with which they had left Houseldon.

Felisin stood on the forecastle deck, watching the mage and Stormy passing the wineskin between them.

Not wishing to remind the Weyrleaders that they had ostracized him at that point in time, Robinton held up his glass, looking plaintively at the wineskin hanging on Lessa's chair.

For several months he was seen wandering about with a toolbox that the gypsies must have left behind in José Arcadio Buendía’s days, and no one knew whether because of the involuntary exercise, the winter tedium or the imposed abstinence, but his belly was deflating little by little like a wineskin and his face of a beatific tortoise was becoming less bloodshot and his double chin less prominent until he became less pachydermic all over and was able to tie his own shoes again.

Darvish asked, back at the rail, a ship's biscuit in one hand and a wineskin dangling from the other.

And it wasn't deflected and it didn't stop inches away from him—it tore right through, and the clown was bleeding like a ripped wineskin and almost fell off his stilts, and if the gypsy'd been able to get a second swing he'd have put Horrabin right out of the picture.

Women and weyrlings moved among the diners with klah pitchers, but not many wineskins were in evidence.