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Definition of Rawhiding
1. rawhide [v] - See also: rawhide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rawhiding
Literary usage of Rawhiding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vincent's Semi-annual United States Register: A Work in which the Principal edited by Francis Vincent (1860)
"... no rawhiding young ladies in school- 357 Revolting case of depravity» ....«,.
5v7 Sailor boarding-house runners 404 Sane woman placed in insane-asylum. ..."
2. Index of Mining Engineering Literature: Comprising an Index of Mining by Walter Richard Crane (1909)
"rawhiding IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. Min. & Sei. Press, vol. 86, p. 147. Note. ...
rawhiding ORES: Good Description of Process. M. & M., vol. 18, p. 508. ..."
3. What's on the Worker's Mind: By One who Put on Overalls to Find Out, Whiting by Whiting Williams (1920)
"No wonder that the rawhiding foreman sticks on the job if any official side-steps
hearing about him that way. But, on the whole, the place would be ..."
4. What's on the Worker's Mind: By One who Put on Overalls to Find Out, Whiting by Whiting Williams (1920)
"No wonder that the rawhiding foreman sticks on the job if any official side-steps
hearing about him that way. But, on the whole, the place would be ..."
5. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"methods is "rawhiding" the well. This consists of alternately starting and stopping
a centrifugal pump, the bowl or bowls of which are set 30 to 60 feet ..."
6. Thomas Alva Edison by Francis Rolt-Wheeler (1915)
"He had been rawhiding Memphis for a long time, and we were terribly sore. To have
a man in our office who could walk all over him made us feel like a man ..."
7. Twentieth Century Practice: An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical by Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1897)
"Assure the somnambulist that he will be watched, and if caught in the act, he
will surely get a sound rawhiding. In many cases the threat alone, ..."
8. Fruit Ranching in British Columbia by John Thomas Bealby (1911)
"rawhiding, I may explain, is a name for a method by which metallic ore taken out
of a mine is conveyed down the mountain side. ..."
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