batskin

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bat +‎ skin

Noun[edit]

batskin (plural batskins)

  1. The hide of a bat.
    • 1990, Belinda Hurmence, A Girl Called Boy, New York: Clarion Books, page 137:
      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."
    • 2008, Jim C. Hines, Goblin War, New York: Daw Books:
      A handful of weapons sat beside a batskin mattress filled with dried grasses.
    • 2007, Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans, Speak, page 318:
      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.
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