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cowskins
n. (plural of cowskin English)
Usage examples of "cowskins".
Twelve cowskins made a lodge about fourteen feet in diameter at the base, and ten feet high.
The tanned cowskins made their lodges, the warmest and most comfortable portable shelters ever devised.
Besides this, they often made a more enduring record of these acts, by reproducing them pictographically on robes, cowskins, and other hides.
The hot rocks are then handed in from the fire outside, and the cowskins pulled down to the ground to exclude any cold air.
Covey one year (I cannot say I lived with him) and during the first six months that I was there, I was whipped, either with sticks or cowskins, every week.