Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Leather made of the hides of hogs, having a grained and minutely punctured surface, used for saddles (generally under the name pigskin) and as an ornamental material for bookbinding and wall-hangings. For the latter uses also called
sowskin and hogs’ leather. See alsoAvignon leather (under leather) and corami.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Leather tanned from ahog 'sskin .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And all this was due, not to my royal lineage, nor to the deeds I had done and the champions I had overthrown, but to a certain hogskin belt buckled next the skin.
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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.
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And all this was due, not to my royal lineage, nor to the deeds I had done and the champions I had overthrown, but to a certain hogskin belt buckled next the skin.
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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.
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And all this was due, not to my royal lineage, nor to the deeds I had done and the champions I had overthrown, but to a certain hogskin belt buckled next the skin.
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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.
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So I gathered my belongings together, cinched my hogskin belt tight about me, and went away to my own country.
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The hogskin belt was flat as famine, nor did it longer gird my loins.
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Suddenly a new hogskin suitcase of distinctive design hit him on the knees, the golf-bag brushed the shins of the shy young man opposite him and an armful of assorted magazines burst over the pretty girl in the far corner of the compartment.
The Return of Mr Campion Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1989
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They wore round caps, boots of hogskin drawn over their naked feet, and belts of raw hide, in which they stuck their sabres and knives.
The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers Philip Gosse 1919
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