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ˈsheepskin
Also sheep's skin.
[Cf. NFris. sjappskann.]
1. a. The skin of a sheep; esp. one used as a garment or in the making of a garment.
c1200Ormin 3210 Hiss girrdell wass off shepess skinn. c1440Jacob's Well 214 Þise schepysskynnes wyth whiche I am wryed were scheep þat I took wrongfully of a wydewe. c1440Lydg. Hors, Shepe & G. 365 Ther is also made of sheepis skyn, Pilchis & glovis. c1500Cocke Lorelles Bote 2 A shepes skyne of a wether. 1526Tindale Heb. xi. 37 Other..walked vppe and doune in shepes skynnes [Rheims, A.V. sheep-skinnes]. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden K 1, One time shee slept in a sheepes skinne all night. 1738Ochtertyre House Bk. (S.H.S.) 122 For a sheeps skine for the mill .007.
1411Nottingham Rec. II. 86, j. shepskyn, jd. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xvii. 62 He was al be furred in black shepe skynnes. 1562–3Act 5 Eliz. c. 22 §1 To..take away the Wooll of any Shepe skinne or Lambe skinne. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 123 Is not Parchment made of Sheep⁓skinnes? 1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. iii. 91 Sheepskins to make Spunges. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xli. IV. 149 They promiscuously slept on the ground, perhaps on a sheep-skin. 1850W. Irving Mahomet xviii. (1853) 81 Garb of coarse woollen patched with sheepskin. 1896Barrie Sentim. Tommy ii, The floor was bare save for a sheepskin beside the bed.
b. in military use.
1802C. James Milit. Dict. s.v. Skin, Sheep skins are made use of to cover the mortars or howitzers between firing. 1833Reg. Instr. Cavalry i. 106 Draw back the sheepskin and shabraque. 1871Daily News 7 Sept., The artillery..were the first to lay their sheepskins aside.
c. A coat made of sheepskin.
1917W. J. Locke Red Planet xxi. 270 From the shapeless tam-o'-shanter to the huge boots..[he] was caked in mud. Over a filthy sheepskin were slung all kinds of paraphernalia. 1977A. Scholefield Venom ii. 83 The policeman made no reply, hunching down again in his sheepskin.
2. a. The skin of sheep used for parchment, for the making of drumheads, in bookbinding, etc.
1340Ayenb. 44 Betere may ech man rede þe ilke zenne, and þe oþre ine þe boc of his inwyt þanne ine ane ssepes scinne. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1014 We stowpe and stare vp-on þe shepes skyn, And keepe muste our song and wordes in.
1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 176 He had to sell..Remissioun of sinnis, in auld scheip skinnis. 1596Raigne K. Edw. III, ii. ii. 50 Poore shipskin, how it braules with him that beateth it! c1613Middleton No Wit like Woman's iv. ii, When did you e'er see a gentleman set his hand to anything, unless it were to a sheep-skin, and receive a hundred pound for his pains? 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 10 June Let. i, I will find a slip of sheep-skin that will do his business. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxxii, Where some wise..conveyancer yet toils for the entanglement of real estate in meshes of sheepskin, in the average ratio of about a dozen of sheep to an acre of land. 1870Daily News 9 Sept. 5 The music of the sheepskin and the trumpets.
b. U.S. slang. A parchment diploma received on taking a degree; the holder of such a diploma.
1843R. Carlton New Purchase (Hall College Words), This apostle of ourn never rubbed his back agin a college, nor toted about no sheepskins. Ibid., I can say as well as the best on them sheepskins, if you don't get religion..you'll be lost, teetotally. 1887Lippincott's Mag. Aug. 299 He has won his sheep-skin; he has, perchance, gained signal honors in his university course.
3. a. attrib. and Comb., as sheepskin-clad, sheepskin-lined adj.; sheepskin-gatherer.
c1645Archæologia LII. 141 A fell monger or Sheepe skin gatherer. 1879Browning Ivan Dram. Idyls 63 About him, watched the work his neighbours sheepskin-clad. 1950C. Edwards in McCall's Mag. Mar. 68/3 A pair of sheepskin-lined slippers. 1980Country Life 3 July 56/1 The del is the colourful Mongolian dress... Winter dels are sheepskin-lined (a man's del can require up to 40 lambskins).
b. attrib. passing into adj. Made or consisting of sheepskin or parchment; written on parchment.
1602Dekker Satirom. F 3 b, This ship-skin-cap shall be put off. 1607Middleton Fam. Love iii. i, Wolves that in sheep-skin bands Prey on the hearts to join th' unwilling hands. 1624J. Taylor (Water P.) Pastorall C 3 b, So doth a sheepe-skin Bond make money breed. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 83 Purifying crude mercury..by passing it through sheep-skin..leather. 1827Scott Chron. Canongate i, A couple of sheep-skin bags, full of parchment and papers. 1833Marryat Peter Simple xxxi, To put the sheepskin mat on the stern gratings of my gig. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. v, A sheepskin drum! 1850― Latterday Pamph. vi. 26 A sheepskin Act of Parliament. 1917Harrods Catal. 763/1 Sheepskin rugs 35/0 to 120/0. 1936‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles xxvi. 278 An atmosphere of marble mantlepieces and sheepskin rugs. 1976J. Bingham God's Defector vi. 73 In front of the dressing-table was a white sheepskin rug.
Hence ˈsheepskinned a., clothed in sheepskin (in quot. 1628 with reference to Matt. vii. 15).
1628Prynne Brief Surv. 2 That some should..watch against deuout and sheepe-skind Wolues. 1879H. S. Edwards Russ. at Home I. 202 Their sheep-skinned persons. 1889‘F. Anstey’ Pariah i. i, Whenever one of the fly-horses..shook his long-suffering and sheepskinned head. |