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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 goatplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GOATSKIN (noun)


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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