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batskin

noun

Etymology

From bat + skin.

  1. derived from *sken-✻ — “to split off”
  2. derived from *skinþą✻
  3. derived from skinn — “animal hide”
  4. inherited from scinn
  5. inherited from skyn
  6. compounded as batskin — “bat + skin”

Definitions

  1. The hide of a bat.

    • She said presently, in a normal tone, "You never saw such a nasty mess of roots and chicken eyes and dried blood and batskins and skulls of toads as Muh kept."
    • A handful of weapons sat beside a batskin mattress filled with dried grasses.
    • Manuclo's baby was said to have smiled his first undoubted smile at her; Manuelo's mother-in-law gave her a charm against rheumatism: a pleasing confection of batskins, jaguar claws and human teeth.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA