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Definition of "rawhide" [raw•hide]

  • The untanned hide of cattle or other animals. (noun)
  • A whip or rope made of rawhide. (noun)
  • To beat with a rawhide whip. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "rawhide" in a sentence
  • "The problem with the rawhide is that the ants like it better than the dog!"
  • "Beneath the wagon was always swung a "rawhide" -- a dried, untanned, unscraped cow's hide, fastened by its four corners beneath the wagon bed."
  • "In the northern Mexican states, especially Sonora, these ropes used to lasso animals from on horseback sometimes are -- or anyway were -- woven of strands of rawhide, which is elastic."