Rawhide

Word RAWHIDE
Character 7
Hyphenation raw hide
Pronunciations /ˈɹɔːhaɪd/

Definitions and meanings of "Rawhide"

What do we mean by rawhide?

The untanned hide of cattle or other animals. noun

A whip or rope made of rawhide. noun

To beat with a rawhide whip. transitive verb

The material of untanned skins of cattle, very hard and tough when twisted in strips for ropes or the like, and dried. noun

A riding-whip made of twisted rawhide. noun

Made of rawhide: as, a rawhide whip.

A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted. noun

Untanned hide. noun

To clear (a pump) of sediment by starting and stopping it repeatedly. verb

Untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes noun

Untanned hide.

A whip made from twisted untanned leather.

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The word "rawhide" in example sentences

The problem with the rawhide is that the ants like it better than the dog! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Beneath the wagon was always swung a "rawhide" -- a dried, untanned, unscraped cow's hide, fastened by its four corners beneath the wagon bed. ❋ Edgar Beecher Bronson (N/A)

In the northern Mexican states, especially Sonora, these ropes used to lasso animals from on horseback sometimes are -- or anyway were -- woven of strands of rawhide, which is elastic. ❋ Unknown (1991)

American cowboys, perhaps confusing the Spanish dale with English dally, began to understand, maybe at the cost of an eye or two, and in their own lingo called the rawhide lariats dally ropes. ❋ Unknown (1991)

Rumpled and flinty-looking, with a kind of rawhide, folksy sincerity, Russell epitomized the rugged and independent spirit of the West. ❋ May, Stephen J. (1997)

To many treats, such as rawhide or bones will change your dogs stool. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A great many of the men are wholly without shoes and use every expedient, such as rawhide moccasins and sandals and even wrapping the feet in pieces of woolen and cotton cloth. " ❋ James H. McClintock (N/A)

Near his head sit an open can of generic dog food, a rawhide bone, and a full bowl of water. ❋ Sean Lovelace (2011)

A few museums own some of his works—massive canvases of ragged swaths of black and a primary color that resemble rawhide—but his last large exhibition was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979-80. ❋ Judith H. Dobrzynski (2011)

In tattered garments that could no longer be called uniforms men stepped gingerly out upon the frozen mixture of snow, mud, and ice in feet swathed in strips of blanket or shod with clumsy rawhide sandals. ❋ Bob Brownstein (2011)

For now, I occasionally give Pritch a large rawhide bone and monitor her while she works on it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also available in audio, e-book, and rawhide editions. ❋ Laurence Hughes (2010)

My guy loves rawhide bones, but they inevitably cause him to "strain at the stool" as undigested pieces struggle to emerge! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Jackson, (pictured above) spent his puppyhood chewing on antlers instead of rawhide, and quickly became adept at uncovering the racks wherever they were hidden. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most people in Fredericksburg remember Scott Panetti as he walked around town in rawhide boots or moccasins he'd made himself, dressed in buckskin clothes with knives strapped around his waist, or else dressed up in camouflage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Additionally, rawhide made overseas may be preserved with chemicals that are arsenic based. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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