RAWHIDE - 7 definitions found
rawhide n 1: untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) rawhide I. noun Date: 1829 1. a whip of untanned hide 2. untanned cattle skin II. transitive verb (rawhided; rawhiding) Date: 1858 1. to whip or drive with or as if with a rawhide 2. chastise 2 Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary rawhide Rawhide is leather that comes from cattle, and has not been treated or tanned. (AM) At his belt he carried a rawhide whip. N-UNCOUNT: usu N n English Explanatory Dictionary rawhide ˈrɔ:haɪd n. 1 untanned hide. 2 a rope or whip of this. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Rawhide \Raw"hide`\, n. A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 81 Moby Thesaurus words for "rawhide": Leatherette, Leatheroid, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blacksnake, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, cane, cat, club, coat, cowhide, crop, cudgel, cut, cuticle, dermis, drub, fell, flagellate, flagellum, flail, fleece, flesh, flog, fur, furring, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide, horsewhip, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jacket, knout, kurbash, lace, lash, lay on, leather, leather paper, outer layer, outer skin, pelt, peltry, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, quirt, razor strap, rind, scourge, sheath, sjambok, skin, skins, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, tegument, thong, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, vair, wallop, whale, whip, whiplash, whop |
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