Definition of "cowhiding" [cowhiding]

• Present participle of cowhide. (verb)
• A flogging with a cowhide. (noun)

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• "How Denny regarded the matter when he found that George had not only cheated him out of the anticipated delight of cowhiding him, but had also cheated him out of himself is left for the imagination to picture."
• "Many had evidently made up their minds that it would be more amusing to see the cowhiding than the circus."
• "This lady he pronounced to be a "perfect savage," and added that "she was in the habit of cowhiding any of her slaves whenever she felt like it, which was quite often.""