Buck"skin` (?), n.

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.

 

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