Definition of "water-skin" [water-skin]

• A vessel or bag of skin used for the storage or transportation of water. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I was interested to know the outcome of that doomed drifting of our forty great wagons across a desolate and hostile land, and I was not at all interested in what came of the mangy hermit with his rock-roweled ribs and stinking water-skin."
• "When he said no more, she unstoppered her own water-skin and settled back against a tree."
• "But some other things I remember: the flames of the go-down and pier seen at a distance, and a wounded man groaning near me in the press of bodies; Ko Dali's daughter speaking to Yakub Beg, and Kutebar saying something which involved an oath to do with a camel; and a water-skin being pressed against my lips, and the warm, brackish water making me choke and cough."