Astrakhan

1. n. The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.
2. a. Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.