Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The untanned hide of cattle or other animals.
- noun A whip or rope made of rawhide.
- transitive verb To beat with a rawhide whip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
- Made of rawhide: as, a rawhide whip.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Untanned hide . - verb transitive To clear (a pump) of sediment by starting and stopping it repeatedly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word rawhide.
Examples
-
The problem with the rawhide is that the ants like it better than the dog!
-
The problem with the rawhide is that the ants like it better than the dog!
-
Beneath the wagon was always swung a "rawhide" -- a dried, untanned, unscraped cow's hide, fastened by its four corners beneath the wagon bed.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
-
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.
-
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.
-
Rumpled and flinty-looking, with a kind of rawhide, folksy sincerity, Russell epitomized the rugged and independent spirit of the West.
Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997
-
To many treats, such as rawhide or bones will change your dogs stool.
xml's Blinklist.com 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. "
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert James H. McClintock
-
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.
Still's Stalwart Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011
-
Also available in audio, e-book, and rawhide editions.
Laurence Hughes: The Doggies of War Laurence Hughes 2010
rfb commented on the word rawhide
Ronald Reagan's Secret Service code name...
November 15, 2008