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Gaskins   Listen
noun
Gaskins  n. pl.  
1.
Loose hose or breeches; galligaskins. (Obs.)
2.
Packing of hemp.
3.
A horse's thighs. (Prov. Eng.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Gaskins" Quotes from Famous Books



... Craig Montgomery A. H. Curtis Perry Thomas Diggs Barbour John Dozier Perry William D. Gaskins Lowndes Ned Gee Dallas J. K. Greene Hale Jeremiah Haralson Dallas R. L. Johnson Dallas Lawrence S. Speed Bullock Henry St. Clair Macon Holland Thompson Montgomery Mansfield Tyler ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various

... wagons With hampers of lunches, pies and flagons, Bucks from city and flash young bloods With vests "cut saucy" to show their studs, Hawbuck Towler and Spicey Random Tooled in style in a rakish tandem. Blood Dick Haggit and Bertie Askins Had dancers' skirts on their horses' gaskins; Crash Pete Snounce with that girl of Dowser's Drove a horse that was wearing trousers; The waggonette from The Old Pier Head Drove to the tune "My ...
— Right Royal • John Masefield

... thought of trying a milliner. I know right smart about hats; but I'd wear all the pretty ones and give all the ugly ones away," she said, with a poor little smile. "And it might interfere with Mrs. Gaskins, and she is a widder. So I thought I'd go away. I thought of being a nurse—I know a little about that. I used to be about the hospital at my old home, and I've had some little experience since." She was ...
— Gordon Keith • Thomas Nelson Page



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