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Webster 1913 Edition


Buckskin

Buck′skinˊ

,
Noun.
1.
The skin of a buck.
2.
A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
3.
A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Cornwallis fought as lang’s he dought,
An' did the
buckskins
claw, man.
Burns.
4.
pl.
Breeches made of buckskin.
I have alluded to his
buckskin
.
Thackeray.

Webster 1828 Edition


Buckskin

BUCK'SKIN

,
Noun.
The skin of a buck. As an adjective, made of leather prepared from the skin of a buck.