Definition of "buckskin"

buckskin

noun
countable and uncountable, plural buckskins
1. The skin of a male deer, a buck.
2. Clothing made from buckskin.
  Quotations
  As she spoke, we perceived two lines of figures, one male and the other female, to the number of about a hundred, each advancing round the human bonfire, arrayed only in the usual leopard and buck skins.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
3. Breeches made of buckskin.
  Quotations
  I have alluded to his buckskins.
  1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
4. A grayish yellow in colour.
5. A soft strong leather, usually yellowish or grayish in color, made of deerskin.
6. A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war.
  Quotations
  Cornwallis fought as lang's he dought, / An' did the buckskins claw, man.
  1784, Robert Burns, Ballad on the American War
adjective
not comparable
1. Of a grayish yellow in colour.