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Definition of Rawhides
1. rawhide [v] - See also: rawhide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rawhides
Literary usage of Rawhides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Forty Years Among the Indians: A True Yet Thrilling Narrative of the Author by Daniel Webster Jones (1890)
"We had hard work to save the lives of the men getting the meat into camp.
CHAPTER XV. Our Food Exhausted—rawhides Cooked and Eaten—Our Fast-Day —An ..."
2. Sketches from the Mountains of Mexico by John R. Flippin (1889)
"I refer to his many uses of rawhides. This would, at first view, appear a small
matter, yet in the business life of the Mexican, cuts no unimportant figure. ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"The machine employed for fulling rawhides, or forming them into leather, has a
drum, A, the central shaft of which has upon its lower end a bevel gear. ..."
4. One Hundred and Fifty Years of School History in Lancaster, Pennsylvania by William Riddle (1905)
"Off with your rawhides!" came the order of command, as the guilty offender of
the majesty of law, sat wriggling and twisting, now jerking at this then at ..."
5. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"The demands of foreign tanners for rawhides would greatly increase in order to
enable them to supply this market in addition to the business which they ..."
6. History of Utah: 1540-1886 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates (1889)
"THROUGHOUT the winter of 1848-9 food was scarce among the settlers. Many still
subsisted mainly on roots, thistles, and even on rawhides.1 Milk, flesh, ..."
7. Pioneer Days in California by John Carr (1891)
"Dick Dungey kept a butcher-shop in town, and the thought struck me that I would
cover my house witli rawhides. I saw Dungey, and lie gave me all the hides 1 ..."
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