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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: 1829 1. a whip of untanned hide 2. untanned cattle skin II. transitive verb (rawhided; rawhiding) Date: 1858 1. to whip or drive with or as if with a rawhide 2. chastise 2

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 untanned hide. 2 a rope or whip of this.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rawhide Raw"hide`, n. A cowhide, or coarse riding whip, made of untanned (or raw) hide twisted.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Rawhide is leather that comes from cattle, and has not been treated or tanned. (AM) At his belt he carried a rawhide whip. N-UNCOUNT: usu N n

Moby Thesaurus

Leatherette, Leatheroid, baste, bastinado, beat, belabor, belt, birch, blacksnake, buffet, bullwhack, bullwhip, cane, cat, club, coat, cowhide, crop, cudgel, cut, cuticle, dermis, drub, fell, flagellate, flagellum, flail, fleece, flesh, flog, fur, furring, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hide, horsewhip, imitation fur, imitation leather, integument, jacket, knout, kurbash, lace, lash, lay on, leather, leather paper, outer layer, outer skin, pelt, peltry, pistol-whip, pommel, pummel, quirt, razor strap, rind, scourge, sheath, sjambok, skin, skins, smite, spank, strap, stripe, swinge, switch, tegument, thong, thrash, thump, trounce, truncheon, vair, wallop, whale, whip, whiplash, whop