hogskinn.adj.

c1450 MS Marquis of Bute f. 170^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Lamskin Of a bynde of skynnys or schorlyng that is to say..ij d. of j c. hog skynnys, ij d. of j c. lamskynnys.

1594 Edinb. Test. XXVI. 278 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Ruch xl ruch hog skynnes price of the peice x s.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. New Test. (ed. 2) ix. 49/2 So in Spaine the wine is carried in borachoes, bags made of hog-skins.

1673 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1914) L. 27 A meale trough..a hog~skin, a reele.

1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 117 The black Cub-skin is preferable to all sorts of that kind, for Muffs. Its Grain is like Hog-Skin.

1799 G. Heath New Bristol Guide 73 Buck, doe, and hog skins for breeches.

1813 ‘T. Martin’ Circle Mech. Arts 258/1 The seats of army saddles are cut out of thin hide leather, of this description, as being less expensive and quite as durable as hog skins.

1836 E. Hazen Panorama of Professions & Trades 74/1 A covering of thin leather, usually made of hog's-skin, is next tacked on, and the flaps added.

1882 J. Philipson Harness 18 Hogskin is utilized for the pads, winkers, &c. of brown harness.

1931 V. Robinson Story of Med. viii. 244 There is something about a sixteenth century book, whether bound in genuine dark morocco..or in embossed hogskin, which is infinitely pleasing.

1965 Folklore 76 297 A maiden..covers herself with a hogskin which she takes off only when she marries a young and handsome prince.

2004 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 28 Jan. f1 Workers unload 5-foot-high cartons of hog skin that's been cleaned of both hair and excess fat. They cut it into pieces, which then are smoked.

1676 H. Teonge Diary 31 Mar. (1825) 147 In the middle of the streete lay severall hundredds of hoggskins full of wines.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Boracho, a But, a Drunkard, and a Hogskin.

1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote v. xix. 372 Till they had drank one Hogskin out.

1735 J. Atkins Voy. Guinea 24 The Roads bad, which makes them bring their Wines to town in Hog-Skins upon Asses.

1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding i. x. 14 I'll be hang'd if any thing be in the doublet of that fat rogue but a hog's-skin of Spanish wine.

1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 7 June 360/2 The juice..is sucked into a long gourd by Indian labourers who transfer it from this to hog-skins.

1895 F. Barrett Set of Rogues vii. 60 We unloosed our saddle bags, and laid out our store of victuals with a hogskin of wine which rekindled our spirits prodigiously.

1916 Laredo (Texas) Times 20 Feb. 2/4 He was caught in the act of bringing two hogskins filled with mexcal to this side of the river.

1950 O. Sitwell Noble Essences i. 11 The women, who could be seen carrying pitchers to the wells, the men, with enormous straw hats as big as wheels, the hog skins filled with wine.

1658 Mercurius Politicus No. 399. 249 A very good new Saddle round skirted,..and a Hogs skin-cover lined with green Bays.

1694 E. Settle Mem. W. Morrell 64 I Humphrey Wickham Esq..did carry a black Hogs-skin Trunk, marked with the Letters H.W. 1688.

1700 Edinb. Gaz. 11–14 Nov. A sheering sword with a Hogskin Scabert, the Handle, shell, and plummet of Silver.

1771 Invoice (R. Cary & Co.) 3 Dec. in G. Washington Papers (1993) VIII. 559 A Very best Hogskin Huntg Saddle..with..candle Dockd Crupper.

1811 T. Coke Hist. W. Indies III. 294 The hog-skin trowsers, drawn on their limbs warm from the animal when shot wild in the woods..[are] common to both.

1898 Public Opinion 3 Nov. 568/1 There are nine volumes, he says, averaging two hundred sheets each, bound in hogskin covers.

1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 9/5 The group up to £1 includes..chamois-lined hogskin gloves.

1967 Guardian 9 Nov. 6/3 Country shoes and stockings, Cossack boots, hogskin gloves.

2005 B. Worthington Discovering Manch. (rev. ed.) 107 The seating, for 145 councillors, is of English oak with hogskin upholstery.