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oilskins

oilskins noun: a waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.

Noun

oilskins pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.
    • The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited. Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    oilies

Synonyms of oilskins

Questions about oilskins

What does oilskins mean?
Oilskins means a waterproof garment, made from oilskin, used especially at sea.
What part of speech is oilskins?
Oilskins is a noun.

Words near oilskins in the dictionary

  1. oilseed radishes
  2. oilseed rape
  3. oilseeds
  4. oilskin
  5. oilskinned
  6. oilskins
  7. oilsmoke
  8. oilspot
  9. oilspots
  10. oilstone
  11. oilstones

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