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Definition of Deerskin
1. Noun. Leather from the hide of a deer.
Definition of Deerskin
1. n. The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.
Definition of Deerskin
1. Adjective. Made from deer leather or hide. ¹
2. Noun. Leather made from deer hide. ¹
3. Noun. The hide, whether tanned or not, of one deer. ¹
4. Noun. An article of clothing manufactured from deerskin. Often constructed in the plural. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deerskin
1. the skin of a deer [n -S]
Medical Definition of Deerskin
1. The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deerskin
Literary usage of Deerskin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rites of the Twice-born by Sinclair Stevenson (1920)
"... of Ganesa—The Vigil—The Next Morning—The Young Men's Feast—The Thread itself—The
Donning of it—The Giving of the deerskin, Staff, Water, ..."
2. Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition by John Murdoch (1892)
"Man in ordinary deerskin clothes 110 52. Woman's hood Ill 53. ... Pattern of
man's deerskin frock 113 55. Detail of trimming, skirt and shoulder of man's ..."
3. The Sun Dance of the Crow Indians by Robert Harry Lowie (1915)
"... deerskin. She went out and got one. Then her husband bade her take it to some
virtuous woman, who accepted it, shouldered it, and took it to the doll ..."
4. In Search of a Siberian Klondike by Washington Baker Vanderlip, Homer Bezaleel Hulbert (1903)
"CHAPTER IX OFF FOE THE NORTH—A RUNAWAY My winter wardrobe of deerskin—Shoes that
keep the feet warm when it is sixty degrees below ..."
5. Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute by United States Naval Institute (1899)
"The trousers, of heavy deerskin, the hair turned out, were of two styles—like
sailors' trousers and like citizens' trousers. In the former style,' they were ..."
6. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"A light, figured, and fringed hunting-shirt of cotton covered his body, while
leggings of deerskin rose to his knee. — Cooper, Oat Openings Rise up, ..."
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