Definition of Cowskins

1. cowskin [n] - See also: cowskin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowskins

cowries
cowrite
cowriter
cowriters
cowrites
cowriting
cowritten
cowrote
cowry
cows
cows' milk
cowshed
cowsheds
cowskin
cowskins (current term)
cowslip
cowslipped
cowslips
cowson
cowsons
cowtree
cowtrees
cowwheat
cowwheats
cowy
cowyard
cox
coxa
coxa adducta

Literary usage of Cowskins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introductory History of England by Charles Robert Leslie Fletcher (1908)
"The exports were almost wholly the said cowskins, cattle being the sole wealth—indeed, the sole food of Irishmen. In the towns there was a rough manufactory ..."

2. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"This makes it quite elastic and springy. Aw with it, on the hardest back, will gash the flesh, I make the blood start. cowskins are painted red, ..."

3. The life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1883)
"... cowskins dried, stood three men with long knives in their hands ; and in the middle of the tent appeared three sheep killed, and one young bullock. ..."

4. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... n slave-holder once said to Dr. Brisbane, of Cincinnati, that religion had been worth more to him, on his plantation, than a wagon-load of cowskins. ..."

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