skin-coat
Also 6 skyn coit, skincote, -coate.
[f. skin n. + coat n.]
1. A coat made of skin.
| 1533 Acc. Lord High Treas. Scotl. VI. 181 To begary the samyne doublet, and to begary ane skyn coit, v ½ quarteris veluot. 1589 Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 76 Am not I a Gentleman, though tirde in a shepheardes skincote. |
† 2. transf. A person's skin. Obs.
| 1589 Hay any work (1844) 9, I will lay on load on your skincoat for this geare anon. a 1592 Greene Jas. IV, i. Proh., Ay engraued the memory of Boughon on the skin⁓coate of some of them. 1611 Cotgr., Escailler,..to beat, bethwacke, belabor the skin-coat of. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais ii. xvii, I will have their skin-coat shaken once yet before they die. |