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deer-skin

deer-skin is the alternative form of deerskin.

Meaning of deerskin

Noun

deerskin (countable and uncountable, plural deerskins)

  1. (uncountable) Leather made from deer hide.
    • The moccasin maker had a pile of deerskin on the table, waiting to be cut out.
  2. (countable) The hide, whether tanned or not, of one deer.
    • The hunter exchanged twenty deerskins for a bottle of whiskey at the trading post.
  3. (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.

Forms of deer-skin

pluraldeer-skins

Questions about deer-skin

What is deer-skin the alternative form of?
Deer-skin is the alternative form of deerskin.

Words near deer-skin in the dictionary

  1. deer-hays
  2. deer-neck
  3. deer-necks
  4. deer-pig
  5. deer-pigs
  6. deer-skin
  7. deer-skins
  8. deerberries
  9. deerberry
  10. deerburger
  11. deerburgers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deer-skin (page history and authors); deerskin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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