batskin

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noun

The hide of a bat.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

nounbatskin (plural batskins)

plural batskins

  1. 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 Books
    2 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 137

    Manuclo'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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APA

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Chicago

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