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Sheepskin is American slang for parchment diploma received on passing a degree.
soft sheepskin boots that originated in Australia
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A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff.
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Same as Basil, a sheepskin.
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A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.
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The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.
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An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
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A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.
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To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.
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The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.
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A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leather. See Shammy.
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A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.
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A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.
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A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.
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