hogskin

English

Etymology

From hog +‎ skin.

Noun

hogskin (countable and uncountable, plural hogskins)

1. Leather tanned from the skin of a hog.

   Synonyms: hoghide, pighide, pigskin

   • 1900, Jack London, The Dignity of Dollars:

     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.

2. The skin of a pig used as a bottle for water or wine.
   • 1869, Mark Twain, chapter LI, in The Innocents Abroad, page 543:

     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.

References

• “hogskin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Hosking