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  • n  an animal skin (usually a goatskin) that forms a bag and is used to hold and dispense wine

  • The 65-year old grandmother with a wineskin dangling around her neck watched through binoculars as the first bull rushed from the stalls as the clock struck 3.
  • Here is Carl squirting himself with a wineskin at Pamplona.
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  • Parishes must put new wine in new wineskins
    People do not put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the skins bursts, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined. Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
    July 8, 2013 - National Catholic Reporter

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