lambskin

Other forms of lambskin

plural

lambskins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lambskin

What does lambskin mean?

lambskin means "the skin of a lamb with the wool still on". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lambskin?

lambskin has 2 syllables: lamb-skin. The stress falls on "lamb".

What is another word for lambskin?

Close synonyms include parchment, sheepskin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lambskin a common word?

lambskin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.