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ˈcow-skin, n.
1. The skin of a cow (when stripped off); the same dressed as a mat, a covering for trunks, or the like. Also attrib.
1780in Narrag. Hist. Reg. I. 101 Carried the cow skin to tann by George Wilson. 1809Repertory (Boston) 6 Oct. (Th.), A green or untanned cowskin whip. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair i, With a very small and weather-beaten old cow's-skin trunk. 1863S. C. Massett Drifting About 155 He with trowsers tucked into his cowskin boots..wended his way to the stage office. 1887Outing (U.S.) X. 119/1 If I only had that cow-skin horse now what I used ter own back in old Missouri.
2. Leather made of the skin of the cow or ox.
3. A whip of raw hide; = cow-hide 3.
1822Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 87 He belaboured him with the ‘cowskin’. 1864W. Whitby Amer. Slav. 187 The man who wields the blood-clotted cow-skin.
Hence cow-skin v., to flog with a cow-skin.
1799Aurora (Philad.) 20 May (Th.), I am a constable, and may therefore kick, cuff, beat, bruise, cowskin, or kill any man I please. 1836Crockett Exploits & Adv. Texas (1837) 78 The devil himself might, the next time, undertake to cowskin such a..scoundrel for him. a1849Poe W. E. Channing Wks. 1864 III. 239 Napoleon Buonaparte Jones..is cowskinned with perfect regularity five times a month. 1947West Pennsylvania Hist. Mag. Sept.–Dec. 132 The ‘cowskinning’ incident..was the final blow. |