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GOATSKIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does goatskin mean?
• GOATSKIN (noun)
The noun GOATSKIN has 1 sense:
1. the hide of a goat
Familiarity information: GOATSKIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The hide of a goat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("goatskin" is a kind of...):
fell; hide (the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal))
Context examples
And I began to run towards the anchorage, my terrors all forgotten, while close at my side the marooned man in his goatskins trotted easily and lightly.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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