as in to leather
to strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible
the desperados rawhided their horses in a futile attempt to outride the posse pursuing them
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Recent Examples of rawhide
Mecca Pryor, Essence, 14 Mar. 2025
Memorable improvisations include an Apache deck from the 19th century, with sword, bell and button forms painted into rectangles of rawhide, and a deck of Paris metro tickets painted over by Alexis Poliakoff in the 1970s.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
The unplugged, pastoral side to baseball, with its hickory bats, Kentucky bluegrass, rawhide, and western Pennsylvania dirt, isn’t going away.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
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Verb
It was crafted with premium leather craftsmanship, rawhide laces, and stays true to its heritage with premium leather craftsmanship, rawhide laces, and Sperry’s signature Razor-Cut Wave-Siping™ outsole.
—Mecca Pryor, Essence, 14 Mar. 2025
Memorable improvisations include an Apache deck from the 19th century, with sword, bell and button forms painted into rectangles of rawhide, and a deck of Paris metro tickets painted over by Alexis Poliakoff in the 1970s.
—Walker Mimms, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
Also in that particular drawer: dog biscuits, rawhide chews — and the pristine bunny.
—Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
The unplugged, pastoral side to baseball, with its hickory bats, Kentucky bluegrass, rawhide, and western Pennsylvania dirt, isn’t going away.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
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Verb
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Laser Module – Add engraving and cutting capabilities for materials from wood and acrylic to leather.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Oct. 2025
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Mirrors have a patina, coffee tables are leathered and trunk-like.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The easiest way to do this is to assess whether your kitchen cabinets are warm (with red, yellow, or orange undertones), like cherry, oak, hickory, and pine; or cool (with gray undertones), like white oak, ash, maple, or birch cabinetry.—
Monika Biegler Eyers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
21 Oct. 2025
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There are many wood chip flavors on the market, but the most popular varieties are apple, cherry, hickory, mesquite and pecan.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The top is detailed with faint lines that function to hide the appearance of wrinkles, while the viscose and polyester blend do the rest of the work to create a smooth, wearable shirt.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
28 Oct. 2025
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Basil, of course, is far from perfect, a rude, neurotic, accident-prone manager who insults guests, hides his gambling winnings from his wife and organizes an elaborate impersonation of her when his surprise anniversary party backfires.—
Rhett Bartlett,
HollywoodReporter,
28 Oct. 2025
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Engineered with innovative construction techniques, each curve of the shoe flows in plush cowhide suede, rising just above the ankle in a continuous fluid form.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
21 Oct. 2025
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Just as cowhide leather exploded in usage only after the advent of chrome-tanning in the 1980s because of the performance improvement that technology gave it, mycelium has needed this sort of breakthrough that Rei-Tan provides to turn it from an interesting raw material into a great product.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
17 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The photo of Chastain whipping off her jersey, shouting in triumph, her sinewy arms flexed, was immediately historic.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
27 Oct. 2025
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Leafs forward Dakota Joshua weaved through Buffalo’s defensive zone coverage without much resistance and then whipped an off-balance shot toward the net.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Looking through sketchbooks of Kaish’s time at MacDowell, Fisher found many drawings of the flowers and birch trees that would have surrounded her.—
Grace Edquist,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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The display features a larger-than-life horse sculpture trotting through birch trees created from piano keys.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Each pair is made in the USA with leather tanned at SB Foot in Red Wing, Minnesota.—
Will Porter,
Outside,
17 Oct. 2025
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At a tannery, the raw animal hide goes through a series of chemical and mechanical treatments to remove hair, fat and flesh before a tanning agent is added to the hide to prevent it from decaying.—
Mars King,
Twin Cities,
15 Oct. 2025
Noun
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These clogs feature an adjustable hook-and-loop closure on the ankle strap and a round, spacious toebed.—
Caroline Hughes,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Oct. 2025
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The teaching assistant was seated on the floor with a luggage strap looped around her neck and tied to a closet doorknob.—
Christine Pelisek,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Rawhide.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rawhide. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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