skin
- noun
- /skɪn/
- They filled the old water skin with fresh spring water for their journey.
- skins were used
- made of skin
Carl said it, The old wine skins.
- Carl said it, The old wine skins.
Examples
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This wine skin was crafted from animal hide and has been in the family for generations.
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And in Ghana, it's actually the skin of the cow and we eat that as well.
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Put it in the skin box, please.
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This old rabbit skin glue really did bond well.
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Whole frozen fish were shipped to South Korea for the "eel skin" leather market.
Academic text (1993) -
I've been hunting for a rabbit skin to wrap my little Bonnie in.
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"They each shouldered the heavy pack and the water skin which was their share, then turned from the light that lay on the lands outside and plunged into the forest."
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Paulo killed animals only for food or for their skins, unless they were poisonous snakes.
Fiction book (1993) -
Its beaches abounded with fur seals, whose skins were then an important object of commerce.
Academic text (1990) -
The hunter used a deer skin to make a sturdy bag for carrying supplies.
Synonyms
A bag made from animal skin that people carry to hold water
A bag made from animal skin for carrying water
Idioms
- Offensive
To scold or punish someone severely to show strong anger, not a real action
- Informal
To annoy someone a lot by small things another person does
Completely wet, with water going through your clothes and reaching your skin
- Informal
Cause a strong feeling of fear or disgust with a creepy physical feeling
Compounds
- Specialized
A small living part of the skin that makes it and helps protect the body
- Specialized
A piece of healthy skin taken from one body part and placed on damaged skin to help it heal
- US
A crisp shell of potato peel fried or baked and topped with melted cheese and bacon
- Specialized
A medical test that puts a small amount of something on the skin to check for allergy or past infection
- Specialized
Change in the skin's tiny electrical activity when you feel stress or strong emotion
- Specialized
A two-layer man-made material used to replace or cover damaged skin after burns
- Specialized
A change in the skin's electrical signal when someone feels stress or strong emotion
- Specialized
A flexible man-made covering that senses touch and temperature on robot hands and replacement limbs
- Specialized
A test that checks if you have been exposed to tuberculosis bacteria by putting a small medicine under the skin
- Specialized
High-frequency electric current flows mostly near a wire's surface instead of through the whole wire
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skin meaning a bag for liquids comes from real animal hides people used as bags, from old skinn meaning 'hide', so a wine skin was literally a hide used to hold water or wine.