oxskint (oksskin)

[Also dial. oskin; Fabian, a chronographer, writing of the Conquer our, sets downe in the history thereof another kinde of measure, very nece ary for all men to understand: foure akers (saith he) make a yard of land, five yards of land contain a hide, and 8 hides make a knights fee, which by his conjecture is so much as one plough can well till in a yeare; in Yorkeshire and other countries they call a hide an oxe skinne. Hopton, Baculum Geodeticum (1614).