wineskin

noun

wine·​skin ˈwīn-ˌskin How to pronounce wineskin (audio)
: a bag that is made from the skin of an animal (such as a goat) and that is used for holding wine

Examples of wineskin in a Sentence

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Well, the soldier at the far left is the one who’s chugging from a wineskin, not the angel across the way. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024 Before Silva and Jake fire the shots into the wineskin, releasing the alcohol within, Condessa suggested the characters count down from three. Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2023 In any case, the metaverse seems to be a new wineskin being filled with old fears. Joel Mathis, The Week, 11 Jan. 2022 The other exemplary work is a large bronze figure of an elderly drunken satyr sprawled atop a lion pelt and wineskin strewn across a rock. Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 3 July 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1821, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of wineskin was in 1821

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“Wineskin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wineskin. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.

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