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Definition of: buskin
(bus′kin) noun
1. A high shoe or half-boot reaching half-way to the knee, and strapped or laced to the ankle.
2. A laced half-boot, worn by Athenian tragic actors.
3. Tragedy. Compare SOCK1. [Origin uncertain]
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