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Definition of Kipskin
1. n. Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.
Definition of Kipskin
1. Noun. Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kipskin
1. an animal hide that has not been tanned [n -S]
Medical Definition of Kipskin
1. Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide. Origin: Kip + skin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kipskin
Literary usage of Kipskin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Connolly's Arithmetic: Or, The Ohio Accomptant: Being a Plain Practical by James L. Connolly, mathematician James L Connolly (1829)
"... Div To half a side of soal leather, weight 24 Ibs. at 31 i cts. per lb, " a
quarter kipskin " 14 Ibs. soal ..."
2. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters by Hardin E. Taliaferro (1859)
"FIGHT ABOUT A kipskin. Here follows an account of a fight farther illustrative
of the foregoing. Josh Jones, who fought Hash-head Smith at the old Quaker's, ..."
3. A French-English Dictionary for Chemists by Austin McDowell Patterson (1921)
"... vacherin, m. a kind of Gruyère cheese. vachette, /. kip, kipskin (from cattle).
vacillant, po wavering, etc. (see vaciller); unsteady, inconstant. ..."
4. The New General and Mining Telegraph Code by Charles Algernon Moreing, Thomas Neal (1907)
"... Have obtained all we want kipskin . Have obtained our ends Kirkyard .
Have obtained Kirtle . . Has (have) not obtained ..."
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