The skin or pelt of a wolf; a garment, etc., made of this. Also attrib.
c. 1410. Master of Game (MS. Digby 182), vi. Þe wolfe skynn is hote forto make koffes or pylches.
a. 1612. Harington, Sch. Salerne, II. (1624), 37. Garments … of Martyn or Wolfe-skinnes.
1734. Free Briton, No. 255. 2/2. Multitudes believe … that a Sheep-skin Drum bursts asunder at the beat of a Wolf-skin Drum.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, III. xvi. His bugle-horn … in a wolf-skin baldric tied.
1859. Tennyson, Elaine, 800. His battle-writhen arms and mighty hands Lay naked on the wolfskin.
1918. Blackw. Mag., June, 743/1. She has known intrigue, romance, strife, power, beauty, shame, virtue, and vice, when our own ancestors were prehistoric barbarians in wolf-skins.
