noun
- bags made from animal skin used for storing and carrying wine or other liquids
Usage: historical; biblical
Examples
- The travelers carried water in old wineskins.
- Ancient peoples stored wine in goatskin wineskins.
- The wineskins were made from carefully prepared animal hides.
- New wine should not be put in old wineskins according to the proverb.
- The merchant’s wineskins were tied securely to his donkey.
- Cracked wineskins would leak and waste precious wine.