cowhide
Noun
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Noun
cowhide
- (countable) A hide of a cow.
- (uncountable) Any quantity of hides of cows.
- (uncountable) Leather made from the hide of cows.
- A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- “Luke did his work,” I said. “How could your father sell him?”
“He worked all right. And the hands would work hard for him—mostly without the cowhide. But sometimes he didn't show much sense.”
- “Luke did his work,” I said. “How could your father sell him?”
- 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
- Spanish: cuero vacuno
cowhide (cowhides, present participle cowhiding; past and past participle cowhided)
- (transitive) To flog with a cowhide.
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