单词 | cowhide |
释义 | cowhiden. 1. The hide of a cow (stript off, ‘raw,’ or ‘dressed’). (Also plural †kine hides.) 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. transitive. To flog with a cowhide. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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