Cowhide

·noun The hide of a cow.

II. Cowhide ·vt To flog with a cowhide.

III. Cowhide ·noun Leather made of the hide of a cow.

IV. Cowhide ·noun A coarse whip made of untanned leather.

cowhide
A particular kind of whip made of raw hide; it is also called a raw-hide. to cowhide To flog with ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.