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Pigskin   Listen
noun
Pigskin  n.  
1.
The skin of a pig, used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.
2.
A football; so called because the covering is often made of pigskin. (Colloq.)






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... was absolutely all that I knew of him until a month ago—that and the profusion of his cases, all of pigskin and stamped with his initials, E. F. A. There were gun cases, and collar cases, and shirt cases, and letter cases and cases each containing four bottles of medicine; and hat cases and helmet cases. It must have needed a whole herd of the ...
— The Good Soldier • Ford Madox Ford



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