rawhide

Examples

• All

• The saddle is made of different pieces of wood, ingeniously sewn together with wet rawhide.

  Academic text (2006)

• Part of their job was to guard crops from animals, and they used stone and rawhide clubs to chase them off.

  Academic text (2008)

• I will tie her with rawhide to a stake in the front yard.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Western furniture can incorporate many different materials, including wood, stone, rawhide, steel, and leather.

  Blog text (17)

• I've got a nice piece of rawhide for ya.

  Man's Best Friend (1993)

• Whole bands had come into camp worse off than we were, trudging in, their feet wrapped in rawhide, having lost everything.

  Fiction book (1995)

• It was a single shell, hung on a piece of rawhide, tied in a tight knot, and it was missing.

  Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)

• OK we've got some rawhide which is basically just some cow skin cowhide that has not been exposed to tanning like leather.

• He showed us how to make a rope from rawhide to secure the cattle in the pen.

• The traditional bag was made of rawhide, allowing it to withstand wear and tear in the field.

Synonyms

H

hide

vsrawhide

134 4.1

The skin of an animal used to make leather

is untanned skin used for ropes and whips not for leather

O

oxhide

vsrawhide

7.0

The skin of an ox used to make leather

is untanned skin used for ropes and whips rather than leather

Antonyms

T

tanned

• Specialized

1 5.1

Animal skin treated to make it into leather

How Processed

finished

• Specialized

1 1.0

to tan

• Specialized

3 6.5

rawhide

10 6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology