Bŭck'skin, n.
n. 1. The skin of a buck; a kind of leather.
Sense 2. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
Cornwallis fought as long's he dought, An' did the buckskins claw him. Burns.
Sense 3. (pl.) Breeches made of buckskin. “I have alluded to his buckskins.” Thackeray.