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单词 cowhide
释义

cowhiden.

Etymology: Formerly pronounced with stress on hide, or with equal stress.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcow-ˌhide.
1. The hide of a cow (stript off, ‘raw,’ or ‘dressed’). (Also plural †kine hides.)
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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
1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 29 Dec. (1855) 148 The best kyne hydes, being rough, be sold for iiij libs.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads x. 141 He himself slept on a good Cow-hide.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 191 In a Robe of Cow-hide, Sat yeasty Pride.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 127 A Negro..his left arm wrapped round with a cow hide.
1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 83 Ships made of wicker, covered with bolg or cow-hides.
2. Leather made of the hide of the cow.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from ox, cow, or buffalo
neat's leather?a1425
buff-leather1574
buff-hide1589
buff-skin1589
cowhide1728
robe1761
Grecian leather1852
crop1858
crop-leather1858
steerhide1921
1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 120 There Caxton slept, with Wynkin at his side, One clasp'd in wood, and one in strong cow-hide.
1759 O. Goldsmith Enq. Present State Polite Learning ix Bound in cow-hide and closed with clasps of brass.
3. U.S. A strong whip made of the raw or dressed hide of the cow. Cf. rawhide v.
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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
1818 M. Birkbeck Lett. from Illinois 90 The enraged barrister, with a hand-whip, or cow-hide, as they are called..actually cut his jacket to ribbons.
1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. ii. 14 The cow-hide, as it is called, that is, a hard ox skin, twisted in the shape of a whip.
1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. III. 230 He would receive forty lashes with a cow-hide.
1862 G. A. Sala Ship-chandler i. 6 The correction of a cowhide would be of the greatest possible benefit.
4. attributive. Made of cowhide.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > made of skin or hide of specific animals
buckskin1565
buffle1577
sheepskin1602
oxhide?1609
goatskin?1614
hogskin1658
cowhide1823
goat1833
parfleche1845
shagreened1847
pigskin1855
alligator1861
lizard-skin1895
parfleched1940
1823 W. Faux Mem. Days Amer. 305 One man then bound him to a tree and lashed him with a cow-hide whip.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 12 He..wore thick, cow~hide boots.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxiii. 191 Kicking the woman with his heavy cow-hide shoe.
1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. (1854) 323 A heavy cowhide whip.
1947 E. Paul Linden on Saugus Branch 210 He had a plug hat..and cowhide boots without buttons or laces.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cowhidev.

Etymology: < cowhide n. 3.
transitive. To flog with a cowhide.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge > with cow-hide
cowhide1794
cow-skin1799
1794 Kentucky Gaz. 1 Mar. 2/3 In November 1792..a justice of the peace was cited to appear before the house of Delegates... Some he had horse-whipped; others he had cow-hided.
1820 W. Faux Memorable Days Amer. (1823) 305 A fashionable, beautiful female,..yet able to cow-hide her negroes.
1855 T. Carlyle Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1857) IV. 356 He got his skin well beaten—cow-hided, as we may say—by Charles XII., the rough Swede, clad mostly in leather.
1864 W. Whitby Amer. Slav. 194 Cowhiding the half-naked back of a slave.
1874 M. Collins & F. Collins Frances III. 84 Cowhided by a lady.

Derivatives

ˈcowhiding n.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging
scourginga1340
flagellation1490
flagitation1490
whipping1566
scutching1611
whip-broth1615
firka1635
horsewhipship1842
flagellantism1855
cowhiding1859
knouting1887
sjamboking1899
1859 T. De Quincey Cæsars (rev. ed.) in Wks. X. 50 Dacia..that needed a cow-hiding for insolence.
1889 Sat. Rev. 23 Mar. 341/1 Tall talk, which would hardly procure an extra cow-hiding per diem for a Bowery editor.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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