Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bag, as of goatskin, used for holding and dispensing wine.
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- noun A
bag , traditionally made from theskin of agoat , used forholding anddispensing wine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an animal skin (usually a goatskin) that forms a bag and is used to hold and dispense wine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Drinking all day can be an expensive affair if you don't have your own strategic reserves waiting to be tapped, so my advice would be to invest in a Las Tres Z.Z.Z. wineskin.
Michael Yarbrough: A Student's Guide to Backpacking: San Fermin Michael Yarbrough 2011
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He held the wineskin out to Sim, who took it as he rose to his feet.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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He held the wineskin out to Sim, who took it as he rose to his feet.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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Trystan lay almost exactly as he had two nights before, one arm flung out, an empty wineskin lying by his side.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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Isolde jerked her thoughts back and tried to fill her mind instead with the memory of Trystan drunkenly asleep beside the empty wineskin.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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Trystan lay almost exactly as he had two nights before, one arm flung out, an empty wineskin lying by his side.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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Isolde jerked her thoughts back and tried to fill her mind instead with the memory of Trystan drunkenly asleep beside the empty wineskin.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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Isolde jerked her thoughts back and tried to fill her mind instead with the memory of Trystan drunkenly asleep beside the empty wineskin.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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Nevertheless, there may be kinds of training (business or technical training, consulting, coaching) that could be done in a for-profit wineskin.
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I recently attended a Friday morning discipleship meeting that is a good example of a “C” quadrant wineskin.
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