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Definition of Cowskin
1. Noun. Leather made from the hide of a cow.
Definition of Cowskin
1. Noun. leather made from the hide of a cow or similar animal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cowskin
1. the hide of a cow [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowskin
Literary usage of Cowskin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Missouri by Eugene Morrow Violette (1918)
"... brought together all the State Guards that had retreated southward and encamped
them at cowskin Prairie in the extreme southwestern part of the State. ..."
2. A Wanderer's Notes by William Beatty-Kingston (1888)
"... AND A cowskin. IN the Prussian service, as in ours, the words " officer "
and " gentleman" are synonymous, or at least convertible terms. ..."
3. Cinderella: Three Hundred and Forty-five Variants of Cinderella, Catskin by Marian Roalfe Cox (1893)
"Everyone laughs ; but shoe fits her perfectly, and at that moment cowskin falls
from her shoulders, and she is at once recognised.— (10) King's son marries ..."
4. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"A cowskin and a hickory stick are constant companions. The cowskin is a kind of
ip seldom seen in the northern states. It is made tirely of untanned, ..."
5. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)
"... than by whipping or beating with a horse-whip, cowskin, switch or small stick,
or by putting irons on, or confining or imprisoning such slave, ..."
6. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1801 Dinah was armed with a cow-skin, while Cloe had nothing bruise, cowskin, or
kill any man I please.—The Aurora, but the simple weapons of nature.—Mass. ..."
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