Synonyms:
rawhide
Meaning: untanned hide especially of cattle; cut in strips it is used for whips and ropes
Usage examples
Then he picked up a rawhide, and began to ply it freely over my shoulders.
Ferdy was of medium size; compact rather than slender; built of rawhide and spring steel.
"I go for some fire-wood!" he said, following the rawhide rope which led into the forest.
He was ferried over the river on a raft formed of two logs lashed together with strips of rawhide.
Manstin grew thirsty, but there was no water in the small dwelling. Taking one of the rawhide ropes he started toward the brook to quench his thirst.
Thus he skipped confidently along jerking the old weather-eaten rawhide spasmodically till all of a sudden it gave way and Manstin fell headlong into the water.
His alert eye caught sight of a rawhide rope staked to the water's brink, which led away toward a small round hut in the distance. The ground was trodden into a deep groove beneath the loosely drawn rawhide rope.
The travaux consisted of a set of rawhide strips securely lashed to the tent-poles, which were harnessed to the sides of the animal as if he stood between shafts, while the free ends were allowed to drag on the ground.