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Definition of Deerskins
1. deerskin [n] - See also: deerskin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deerskins
Literary usage of Deerskins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
"In tanning and dressing buck or deerskins, there are two methods sometimes employed.
OLD-FASHIONED METHOD. The first is the old-fashioned oil-dressed method ..."
2. Five Thousand Miles in a Sledge: A Mid-winter Journey Across Siberia by Lionel Francis Gowing (1889)
"... duga—Cossacks on the spree—A lonely post-station—Deer and deerskins—A meeting
with old friends—The Siberian carpenter—A dangerous ..."
3. The Romance of Savage Life: Describing the Life of Primitive Man, His by George Francis Scott Elliot (1908)
"... and its painful nature—First clothes—deerskins and preparation—Bark-cloth—Goats'
and sheep's wool—Togas and dressing-gowns—The safety-pin and buckle. ..."
4. Centennial History of Missouri: (the Center State) One Hundred Years in the by Walter Barlow Stevens (1921)
"He laid down a pack of deerskins. Auguste Chouteau weighed them, calculated the
... A pound of shaved deerskins was equal to two livres, thirty-seven cents. ..."
5. Report on the Population and Resources of Alaska at the 11th Census, 1890 by United States Census Office, Census Office, 1890 11th census, United States (1893)
"In exchange for Siberian spotted deerskins, Russian leaf tobacco, wolverine, fox,
marten, and wolf skins the Point Barrow traders give their cargoes of oil, ..."
6. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"They tell us this for our information and give a quantity of deerskins. 2.
They give beavers and deerskins and desire to know, what we would advise them to ..."
7. Annual Report on Introduction of Domestic Reindeer Into Alaska by Sheldon Jackson, United States Bureau of Education (1901)
"1 pair white deer boots: H. Kawai, Point Hope, for 2 deerskins, 4 deerskins; ...
for 1 skin, ~ deerskins: ..."
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