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wineskin

wineskin

1 9.3
A bag made from animal skin used to carry wine
  • noun
  • /ˈwaɪnˌskɪn/
  • Archaic
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  • He filled the wineskin with freshly made wine before the feast.
  • old wineskins
  • wine in wineskins

Examples

  • The cook had a smoky fire going in a box of earth, and they passed around a wineskin as he prepared a meal.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The new wine could not be contained by the old wineskins.

    Academic text (2010)

  • If we hope to incorporate new pop styles into our curricula, we cannot pour "new wine into old wineskins."

    Academic text (1999)

  • The traveler drank from the wineskin as they sat by the campfire.

  • After the long journey, they shared a wineskin of red wine with their friends.

Synonyms

wine bottle
vswineskin
11 1.0

A glass container for keeping and pouring wine

is a flexible animal-skin sack used to store and pour an alcoholic drink

Surface Forms

wineskin singular
wineskins plural

Morphology

wineskin = wine + skin (transparent) = wine + skin

The compound is a straightforward combination of 'wine' + 'skin' meaning a skin used to hold wine, which is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word wineskin is made of two simple parts, wine and skin: people long ago sewed animal skins into bags to carry 'wine'. So a wineskin is literally a 'skin' used for 'wine', which helps you remember it means a soft bag for storing and pouring wine.