Definition of "cowhided" [cowhided]

• Simple past tense and past participle of cowhide. (verb)

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• "Lucy's boys, and Marse John cowhided them for misbehaving."
• "He was called upon by a young man (the son of his master,) to do something, and not moving as quickly as his young master wished him to do, he drove him to the barn, knocked him down, and jumped upon him, stamped, and then cowhided him until he was almost dead."
• "If the slave returned home to his master under the influence of liquor, the master in many instances went and cowhided the seller."