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deerskin 
1 n. caribou hide, widely used for clothing and tents by Indians and Eskimos in the North.
- 1735 (1965) Our powder we keep wrapped up with deerskins which being a very safe method has been well approved of. . . .
- 1774 (1934) Traded a little Meat and some Parchment Deerskins for Snow shoe Netting.
- 1895 (n.d.) Then again he offered the Great Slave women to marry, and fifty tents of deerskin for the making of a village.
- 1963 . . . I had enough to do to keep from freezing, tho' I had on a hairy deerskin coat, and was warmly clad.
2 n. a robe or blanket made of caribou hide.
- 1931 A platform about two feet above the floor . . . was covered with deerskins.
- 1958 Frequently the writer has encountered native trappers with two deerskins and two Hudson's Bay "Point" Blankets on the front of the sled. . . .
- 1735 (1965) Our powder we keep wrapped up with deerskins which being a very safe method has been well approved of. . . .