Thesaurus results for HORSEHIDE

horsehide

noun

as in pigskin

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Recent Examples of horsehide As a new baseball season gets underway, here’s hoping that the owners’ memories are jolted by the smell of Cracker Jack® and horsehide. —

Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Mar. 2026 Garvey, the former Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres first baseman and National League most valuable player in 1974, has played the baseball card to the hilt, even passing out autographed horsehides at many campaign stops. —

Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024 According to its founder, Gary Eastman, the business attired nearly every other character in the series, producing the brown B-3 jackets worn by Austin Butler, Barry Keoghan, and others, as well as the Type A-2 horsehide and Type B-10 cotton jackets that also feature throughout the series. —

Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 21 Feb. 2024 Judge stepped forward, unleashed his murderous swing and sent a horsehide comet soaring to left field. —

David Waldstein, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022 So during this weird, forlorn season, there seemed to be no chance of me seeing the Phils pound the old horsehide. —

Joe Queenan, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2020 Yet the integrity of the game continues to be threatened by a spheroid that costs about $9 and could be affected by even the simple act of a mosquito buzzing around the horsehide of a cow. —

Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2019 Fashion is retrofitted: Chevette, a bike messenger, wears a vintage horsehide motorcycle jacket with bar codes affixed to its lapels. —

Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019 From the 2018 Official Baseball Rules: The ball shall be a sphere formed by yarn wound around a small core of cork, rubber or similar material, covered with two strips of white horsehide or cowhide, tightly stitched together. —

Emma Baccellieri, SI.com, 29 May 2018

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Noun

After pigskin season ended, these people reasoned, activity might dwindle for a little while.

— Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 May 2026
Above all else, the Big East cleared space for college basketball in a world increasingly run roughshod by the pigskin.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2026