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sheepskin (n.) Old form(s): shipskin
[descriptive of a] drum [the skin of a sheep being used for the making of drumheads]
E3 II.ii.48[King Edward to Lodowick, of the drum] Poor sheepskin, how it brawls with him that beateth it! [Q2; Q1 shipskin]
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