Definition of Galligaskins:

part of speech: noun plural

Leather protectors or hose for the legs of sportsmen during shooting excursions, & c.

Usage examples:

• On receiving these direful tidings, the valiant Peter started from his seat- dashed the pipe he was smoking against the back of the chimney- thrust a prodigious quid of tobacco into his left cheek- pulled up his galligaskins and strode up and down the room, humming, as was customary with him when in a passion, a hideous north- west ditty. Washington Irving in "Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete".

• Neither did they establish their claims to gentility at the expense of their tailors for as yet those offenders against the pockets of society, and the tranquillity of all aspiring young gentlemen were unknown in New Amsterdam; every good housewife made the clothes of her husband and family, and even the goede vrouw of Van Twiller himself thought it no disparagement to cut out her husband's linsey- woolsey galligaskins Washington Irving in "Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete".

• Before, however, I had disengaged myself from the pile of trunks and carpet bags I had surrounded myself with- he had got out of the coach, and all I could catch a glimpse of was the back of a little short man in a kind of grey upper coat, and long galligaskins on his legs. Charles James Lever (1806-1872) in "The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete".

• In his right hand he held forth the ominous dispatches, and with his left he grasped firmly the waistband of his galligaskins which had unfortunately given way in the exertion of descending from his horse. Washington Irving in "Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete".