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rawhide

[raw-hahyd] / ˈrɔˌhaɪd /


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Metal ring bits adopted from the Spanish caused distinctive fractures in an animal’s teeth and palate; rawhide bridles developed by Native people wore telltale grooves in the lower jaw.

From Science Magazine Mar. 29, 2023

Materials here include repurposed leather, fur, silk, rawhide, shells and snakeskin.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2023

Or if the buckskin has been washed for five days in a row, it turns into rawhide.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2022

It’s clear from the jump that Phil was in love with him: the butchest cowboy who ever roamed the range, the man who taught him to braid rawhide.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 16, 2022

The only sounds were the trees whispering in the night breeze, and the rasp of Wolf’s tongue as he licked the rawhide.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ollie" Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder.

From Time Magazine Archive

Labor The two big-bodied, grim-faced men sat in their green-walled hotel suites in Washington and listened as the President rawhided them over the radio.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the evenings he brought work home and labored far into the night, frequently calling staff members in for consultation or for rawhiding rebuke.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seldom had a top-rank businessman given business such a rawhiding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Krug remained silent; he suffered Lewis's rawhiding without complaint.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, in a flood of intemperate language unmatched since his rawhiding of the striking railroad workers in 1946,* the President launched into an angry dressing-down of the whole steel industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

But here are the facts, and he knows it: for four years he's been rawhiding me at every chance with his practical jokes.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell




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