Crossword clues for cowhide
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cowhide \Cow"hide`\ (-h?d`), n.
The hide of a cow.
Leather made of the hide of a cow.
A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
Cowhide \Cow"hide`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cowhided; p. pr. & vb. n. Cowhiding.] To flog with a cowhide.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) A hide of a cow. 2 (context uncountable English) Any quantity of hides of cows. 3 (context uncountable English) Leather made from the hide of cows. 4 A coarse whip made of untanned leather. vb. (context transitive English) To flog with a cowhide.
WordNet
n. leather made from the hide of a cow [syn: cowskin]
the hide of a cow
a heavy flexible whip made of braided cowhide
v. flog with a cowhide
Wikipedia
Cowhide is the natural, unbleached skin and hair of a cow. It retains the original coloring of the animal. Cowhides are a product of the food industry from cattle; other cows are killed specifically for their skin. Cowhide can also be processed into a leather, which can be used to make such things as shoes, wallets, leather jackets, and belts.
Usage examples of "cowhide".
I lay limp, past shivering, beside a boulder, while the Gray Watcher covered me with a cowhide we carried with us on all our journeys.
I pulled a branch under the cowhide and scrabbled my fingers through the pebbles at my feet.
We drew the cowhide over our heads and sat with the fire between us, not caring about the smoke, until we were both warm and dry.
The Gray Watcher had flung the cowhide over the two boulders and created a sheltered spot between them.
Then I rose and folded the blanket, replacing it in its cowhide pouch.
I start having my cowhide supplier send you the raw goods, dye, tackiness, and texture built in and ready for cutting, what the bottom line is.
Its head was invisible, covered with an oiled cowhide bag against the salt spray.
Her helmet of lacquered and bronze-studded cowhide she had removed, so that her wealth of orange-and-gold hair stirred about her shoulders and bounced when she walked.
Strolling out onto the concourse of North Pines Mall in cowhide boots and a blue denim jacket, his hair tied back in a sausage-thick ponytail.
He wore cowhide boots and a blue denim jacket, his hair tied back in a ponytail.
He wore a ten-gallon hat, black leather chaps, boots, and a cowhide vest.
Besides that, it had a brand new cowhide bottom with fur that sort of tickled my legs.
He thrust out his foot, covered with a heavy cowhide boot, laced high about his leg with thongs of skin.
It starts out as a pallet of stacked cowhides cut so clean off the animals that they look like they could be put back on like snug jackets.
If fresh cowhides had lately been deposited in this hiding-place where were they?