Meaning of hogskin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.
   countable, uncountable
2. The skin of a pig used as a bottle for water or wine.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“My spiritual backbone stiffened, and I held my head high, looking all men in the eyes. And I did these things, not that I was an egotist, not that I was impervious to the critical glances of my fellows, but because of a certain hogskin belt, plethoric and sweat-bewrinkled, which buckled next the skin above the hips.”

“Other Arabs were filling black hog-skins with water—skins which, well filled, and distended with water till the short legs projected painfully out of the proper line, looked like⟳ the corpses of hogs bloated by drowning.”

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