GASKIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gaskin mean? 

• GASKIN (noun)
  The noun GASKIN has 1 sense:

1. lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle

  Familiarity information: GASKIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GASKIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lower part of a horse's thigh between the hock and the stifle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gaskin" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("gaskin" is a part of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

hind leg (the back limb of a quadruped)

 Context examples 

He was clothed with tatters of old ship's canvas and old sea-cloth, and this extraordinary patchwork was all held together by a system of the most various and incongruous fastenings, brass buttons, bits of stick, and loops of tarry gaskin.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)