- the hide of a deer
- leather or a garment made from this
made of deerskin
deerskin
deer·skinWebster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Link to this page
Cite this page
MLA Style
"deerskin." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 07 December 2018. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/deerskin>.
APA Style
deerskin. (n.d.). Retrieved December 07th, 2018, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/deerskin
deerskin
noun
- Leather made from the hide of a deer.
- A garment made from deerskin.
THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Link to this page
Cite this page
MLA Style
"deerskin." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 07 December 2018. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/deerskin>.
APA Style
deerskin. (n.d.). Retrieved December 07th, 2018, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/deerskin
Adjective
(not comparable)
Noun
(plural deerskins)
- (uncountable) Leather made from deer hide.
- The moccasin maker had a pile of deer-skin on the table, waiting to be cut out.
- (countable) The hide, whether tanned or not, of one deer.
- The hunter exchanged twenty deerskins for a bottle of whiskey at the trading post.
- (countable) An article of clothing manufactured from deerskin. Often constructed in the plural.
- The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas.
English Wiktionary. Available under CC-BY-SA license.
Link to this page
Cite this page
MLA Style
"deerskin." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 07 December 2018. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/deerskin>.
APA Style
deerskin. (n.d.). Retrieved December 07th, 2018, from https://www.yourdictionary.com/deerskin
