Meaning of Buckskin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The skin of a male deer, a buck.
   countable, uncountable
2. Clothing made from buckskin.
   countable, uncountable
3. Breeches made of buckskin.
   countable, uncountable
4. A grayish yellow in colour.
   countable, uncountable
5. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
   countable, uncountable
6. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
   countable, uncountable
7. A horse with a light yellowish-brown coat.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins.”

“I have alluded to his buckskins.”

“Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.”

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