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gascoyne

gascoyne is the obsolete form of gaskin.

Meaning of gaskin

Noun

gaskin (plural gaskins)

  1. (in plural) Trousers, hose.
    • That if one [lace] break, the other will hold; or, if both break, your gaskins fall.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  2. Part of the hind leg of a horse, between the stifle and the hock.
  3. A gasket.

See all 4 meanings of gaskin

Proper noun capitalized: Gascoyne

Gascoyne

  1. An English surname from Old French, variant of Gascoigne.
  2. A minor city in Bowman County, North Dakota.
  3. One of nine administrative regions in Western Australia.

Forms of gascoyne

pluralgascoynes

Questions about gascoyne

What does gascoyne mean?
Gascoyne means an English surname from Old French, variant of Gascoigne.
What is gascoyne the obsolete form of?
Gascoyne is the obsolete form of gaskin.
What part of speech is gascoyne?
Gascoyne is a proper noun.

Words near gascoyne in the dictionary

  1. Gasconians
  2. Gasconism
  3. Gasconisms
  4. Gascons
  5. Gascony
  6. gascoyne
  7. gascoynes
  8. gasdermin
  9. gasdermins
  10. gasdynamic
  11. gasdynamics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gascoyne (page history and authors); Gascoyne (page history and authors); gaskin (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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