goatskin
(ˈgəʊtskɪn)
Also 4 geet skin, 6 goats skin.
The skin of a goat, esp. one used for a garment, a wine-bottle, etc.
| 1388 Wyclif I Sam. xix. 13 An heeri skyn of geet [v.r. a rouȝ geet skin]. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia ii. (1590) 102 b, Where..she found Dorus, apparelled in flanen, with a goats skin cast vpon him. 1611 Bible Heb. xi. 37 They wandered about in sheepskinnes, and goat skins. 1725 Pope Odyss. ix. 229 A goat-skin filled with precious wine. 1842 Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 114, I wear an undress'd goatskin on my back. 1883 Stevenson Treas. Isl. iii. xv, The marooned man in his goatskins trotted easily and lightly. |
| attrib. 1725 Pope Odyss. xxiv. 264 His head..Fenc'd with a double cap of goatskin hair. 1814 Scott Wav. xvi, The goat-skin purse, flanked by the usual defences, a dirk and steel-wrought pistol, hung before him. |