Meanings
plural batskins
- The hide of a bat.
A handful of weapons sat beside a batskin mattress filled with dried grasses.
2008, Jim C. Hines, Goblin War, New York: Daw Books2 more examples
She said presently, in a normal tone, "You never saw such a nasty mess of roots and chicken eyes and dried blood and batskins and skulls of toads as Muh kept."
1990, Belinda Hurmence, A Girl Called Boy, New York: Clarion Books, page 137Manuclo's baby was said to have smiled his first undoubted smile at her; Manuelo's mother-in-law gave her a charm against rheumatism: a pleasing confection of batskins, jaguar claws and human teeth.
2007, Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans, Speak, page 318
Origin
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