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Webster 1913 Edition


Cowhide

Cow′hideˊ

(-h?dˊ)
,
Noun.
1.
The hide of a cow.
2.
Leather made of the hide of a cow.
3.
A coarse whip made of untanned leather.

Cow′hideˊ

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cowhided
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Cowhiding
.]
To flog with a cowhide.

Definition 2024


cowhide

cowhide

English

Noun

cowhide (countable and uncountable, plural cowhides)

  1. (countable) A hide of a cow.
  2. (uncountable) Any quantity of hides of cows.
  3. (uncountable) Leather made from the hide of cows.
  4. A coarse whip made of untanned leather.

Coordinate terms

Verb

cowhide (third-person singular simple present cowhides, present participle cowhiding, simple past and past participle cowhided)

  1. (transitive) To flog with a cowhide.