rawhide

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However, during the FBI tests in 2022 at the agency’s lab in Quantico, Va., forensic analysts used a rawhide mallet to strike the gun so hard that components of the gun fractured.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2024

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

Three days later, the campaign chiefs from Florida and Arizona were summoned to the Roosevelt Room, where Trump gnawed on them furiously like a dog with a length of old rawhide.

From Salon • May 31, 2020

Vertical sculptures hanging from the ceiling or suspended like flayed skins on the wall are made of chain mail with sharp hooks, rawhide and small burning candles attached to them.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2019

He had broad shoulders and bulging arms, hands like hammers, and the leathery skin of a man who’d been sunburned so many times his naturally creamy complexion had grown tough and brown as rawhide.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee