cow-skinn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcow-skin.

1. The skin of a cow (when stripped off); the same dressed as a mat, a covering for trunks, or the like. Also attributive.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skin of bull, cow, or ox

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oxhidec1350

bull-skinc1400

ox-skin?a1450

huddron1592

cowhide1640

cow-skin1780

steerhide1921

1780 in Narragansett Hist. Reg. (1882) Oct. 101 Carried the cow skin to tann by George Wilson.

1809 Repertory (Boston) 6 Oct. A green or untanned cowskin whip.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) i. 6 With a very small and weather-beaten old cow's-skin trunk.

1863 S. C. Massett Drifting About 155 He with trowsers tucked into his cowskin boots..wended his way to the stage office.

1887 Outing 10 119/1 If I only had that cow-skin horse now what I used ter own back in old Missouri.

Categories »

2. Leather made of the skin of the cow or ox.

3. A whip of raw hide; = cowhide n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > of hide

tarleather1566

plet1781

cow-skin1789

sjambok1790

kurbash1814

chabouk1817

cowhide1818

hide1851

kiboko1898

chicote1903

1789 Amer. Museum 5 92 They will work on your fields, and if they are negligent, you will give them the cowskin.

1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Jan. 164 He belaboured him with the ‘cow-skin’.

1864 W. Whitby Amer. Slav. 187 The man who wields the blood-clotted cow-skin.

Derivatives

cow-skin v. to flog with a cow-skin.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > with cow-hide

cowhide1794

cow-skin1799

1799 Aurora (Philadelphia) 20 May I am a constable, and may therefore kick, cuff, beat, bruise, cowskin, or kill any man I please.

1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 78 The devil himself might, the next time, undertake to cowskin such a..scoundrel for him.

a1849 E. A. Poe W. E. Channing in Wks. (1864) III. 239 Napoleon Buonaparte Jones..is cowskinned with perfect regularity five times a month.

1947 W. Pennsylvania Hist. Mag. Sept.–Dec. 132 The ‘cowskinning’ incident..was the final blow.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	cow-skin
释义	cow-skinn. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcow-skin. 1. The skin of a cow (when stripped off); the same dressed as a mat, a covering for trunks, or the like. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > skin of bull, cow, or ox bull-hidec1275 oxhidec1350 bull-skinc1400 ox-skin?a1450 huddron1592 cowhide1640 cow-skin1780 steerhide1921 1780 in Narragansett Hist. Reg. (1882) Oct. 101 Carried the cow skin to tann by George Wilson. 1809 Repertory (Boston) 6 Oct. A green or untanned cowskin whip. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) i. 6 With a very small and weather-beaten old cow's-skin trunk. 1863 S. C. Massett Drifting About 155 He with trowsers tucked into his cowskin boots..wended his way to the stage office. 1887 Outing 10 119/1 If I only had that cow-skin horse now what I used ter own back in old Missouri. Categories » 2. Leather made of the skin of the cow or ox. 3. A whip of raw hide; = cowhide n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > whip or scourge > of hide tarleather1566 plet1781 cow-skin1789 sjambok1790 kurbash1814 chabouk1817 cowhide1818 hide1851 kiboko1898 chicote1903 1789 Amer. Museum 5 92 They will work on your fields, and if they are negligent, you will give them the cowskin. 1822 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 19 Jan. 164 He belaboured him with the ‘cow-skin’. 1864 W. Whitby Amer. Slav. 187 The man who wields the blood-clotted cow-skin. Derivatives cow-skin v. to flog with a cow-skin. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > with cow-hide cowhide1794 cow-skin1799 1799 Aurora (Philadelphia) 20 May I am a constable, and may therefore kick, cuff, beat, bruise, cowskin, or kill any man I please. 1836 D. Crockett Exploits & Adventures in Texas (1837) 78 The devil himself might, the next time, undertake to cowskin such a..scoundrel for him. a1849 E. A. Poe W. E. Channing in Wks. (1864) III. 239 Napoleon Buonaparte Jones..is cowskinned with perfect regularity five times a month. 1947 W. Pennsylvania Hist. Mag. Sept.–Dec. 132 The ‘cowskinning’ incident..was the final blow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1780
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