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Definition of Cowhides
1. cowhide [v] - See also: cowhide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowhides
Literary usage of Cowhides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... it has built, through all the Southern States, slave-warehouses, with all
their ghastly furnishings of gags, and thumbscrews, and cowhides; ..."
2. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1907)
"cowhides Regarding bookbinding Cowhide, either just simply ... cowhides in general
are split into two or three skins: the grain, the middle split, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... these were written on 1200 cowhides, a statement confirmed by Masudi, ...
which the Magi called tLe writing of religion, was written on 12000 cowhides, ..."
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