eelskin

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Etymology

From eel +‎ skin (hagfish are very eel-like, and are sometimes called slime eels).

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eelskin (plural eelskins)

  1. the skin of a hagfish
    She paid for three eelskins.
    He had an eelskin wallet.
    • 1896, Clifton Johnson, “Medicinal”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 77:
      Wear an eelskin around your waist to keep off rheumatism. Some say they had rather have the rheumatism.

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