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horsehide

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Word definitions for horsehide in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. leather from the hide of a horse

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., from horse (n.) + hide (n.).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horsehide \Horse"hide`\, n. The hide of a horse. Leather made of the hide of a horse.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 hide of a horse. 2 (context baseball slang English) A baseball. (19th century)

Usage examples of horsehide.

I can ride anything -- anything that ever was lapped in horsehide -- swim like a musk-duck, and track like a Myall blackfellow.

Then, thinking back to Noria and the First Rites ceremony, he recalled the white horsehide hanging on the wall behind the bed, decorated with the red heads of immature great spotted woodpeckers.

Boone continued to undo the rope, the folds of the horsehide loosened.

Texas flash--like the Meissen vase sitting atop a table supported by twisted cowhorns or the spotted horsehide blanket thrown over the back of the leather sofa.

He was working at it with the horsehide strop now, holding the sword between his knees as he worked and taking a certain cranky pride in the quality of his work.

He wore a black, long-sleeved horsehide jacket with steel discs riveted to it to form a kind of flexible armor.

The steel discs on his horsehide jacket gleamed red in the flickering light, and his saber was streaked with blood.

Mandorallen in his armor and Barak in his mail shirt rode at the head of the party, and Hettar in his horsehide jacket with steel plates riveted to it rode at the rear.

He had removed his horsehide jacket and linen undertunic, and his lean torso gleamed with sweat.

As the horse tore past her, her long fangs ripped through horsehide and horseflesh and horse-muscle.

The barrel came off an MR-4, the recoil spring was cut down from a Stoner, the carrying strap made of horsehide and the replacement stock hand carved by a local carpenter.

Then she looked at the pile of meat, the mud-encrusted horsehide, the dead wolverine, and the dead lynx.

I wrapped my hand in an old piece of horsehide and picked up the hot poker.

Gorgidas carefully scraped the dirt from his horsehide boots before going in.

He scraped fat from the inside of the roughly butchered horsehide, cut more strips from the hunks of horsemeat.