[f. BUCK sb.1 + SKIN.]

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  1.  The skin of a buck.

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1433.  Test. Ebor. (1855), II. 31. Unum dublett coopertum cum bukskynnes.

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1465.  in Ripon Ch. Acts, 159. Unam longam tunicam de bukskynnes.

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1686.  Lond. Gaz., No. 2124/4. 15 Buck-skins dry’d, not pared. Ibid. (1707), No. 4344/4. For Sale by the Candle … 9000 Carolina Buck-Skins.

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1809.  R. Langford, Introd. Trade, 82. Buck Skins at 11s. 6d. each.

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  2.  Leather made from the skin of a buck; also from sheepskin prepared in a particular way.

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1804.  Huddesford, Wiccam. Chaplet, 140. Bold blades, in buck-skin breech’d.

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1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, I. 34. Willing to see you two as closely united together, as ever needle stitched buckskin.

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1846–83.  R. Eg.-Warburton, Hunt. Songs (1883), xlvi. 134. Buckskin’s the only wear fit for the saddle.

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1878.  Black, Green Past., xiii. 100. The suit of grey buckskin which he wore.

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  b.  attrib. and comb.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1593), 79. In buck-skin cotes.

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1660.  Pepys, Diary, 1 June. The fine pair of buckskin gloves.

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1710.  Tatler, No. 241, ¶ 9. A Pair of Buck-Skin Breeches.

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1753.  H. Walpole, Corr., I. 198. A young squire booted and spurred and buckskin-breeched.

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1824.  Cobbett, Weekly Register, 12 June, 674. Priests … who never wear buckskin breeches, and go a fox-hunting.

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1877.  J. Allen, Amer. Bison, 581. The buckskin suit of the Rocky Mountain hunter.

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  3.  Breeches made of buckskin. (In first quot. possibly gloves or boots of that material.)

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1481–96.  Howard Househ. Bks., 315. My Lord paied to his cordwaner … for a payr bucskyns … xviij.d.

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a. 1658.  Cleveland, News fr. Newcastle, 120. [He] … in embroidered Buckskins blows his Nails.

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1774.  Westm. Mag., II. 657. The honest buckskin … Our modern Nimrod turns to sattin breeches.

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1851.  Kingsley, Yeast, ii. 34. A red coat and white buckskins.

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  † 4.  A nickname of the American troops during the Revolutionary war; hence, a native American.

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1787.  Burns, Amer. War. Cornwallis fought as long’s he dought, An’ did the buckskins claw, man.

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1800.  Weems, Washington, ii. (1877), 8. George Washington a buck skin!… impossible! he was certainly an European.

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1823.  Thacher, Mil. Jrnl., 72. The burlesque epithet of Yankee from one party, and that of Buckskin from the other.

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  Hence Buckskinned a.

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1829.  A. Fonblanque, Eng. under 7 Admin. (1837), I. 240. Yorkshire buckskinned ’Squires.

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1884.  Joaquin Miller, Memorie & Rime, 107. He [Chief Joseph] was a savage, buckskinned delegate to Congress from the unorganized territory of Oregon.

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