rawhide
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rawhide (countable and uncountable, plural rawhides)
- Untanned hide.
- 1907, O. Henry, Hearts and Crosses:
- This throw was fair; the white cow came to earth again; and before it could rise Santa had made the lasso fast around a post of the corral with a swift and simple knot, and had leaped upon the cow again with the rawhide hobbles.
- (countable) A whip made from twisted untanned leather.
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untanned hide
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rawhide (third-person singular simple present rawhides, present participle rawhiding, simple past and past participle rawhided)
- (transitive) To clear (a pump) of sediment by starting and stopping it repeatedly.
- (transitive) To beat with a rawhide whip.