cowhide

• “All are made from luxurious top grain cowhide leather.”

  Stand Out This Spring with Handbags from Kipling

• “This was invariably his custom, when the subject was recalled to his mind -- 'Yes!' he exclaimed, 'the cowhide was my breakfast, and dinner, and supper,' meaning that he had been exposed to the lash”

  God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited

• “His appearance would indicate the sailor and the horse-jockey; he wore a tarpauling and blue jacket, high-top boots with spurs, and leather trousers; he flourished a riding stick, commonly known as a cowhide, and had large gold rings dangling in his ears.”

  Margaret

• “The cowhide is the best specific for keeping the black rascals in order," exclaimed Mr Tony Grubbins, an attorney from a neighbouring estate, who looked as if he not unfrequently used that same weapon of offence.”

  The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley

• “Even then, there were different grades of leather such as cowhide versus horsehide.”

  Holster Leather | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles

• “The furnishings and style is unashamedly 70's-man black, chrome and mirrors, and the 'cowhide' seats are an interesting touch ...”

  Review - Gaucho, 25 April 2008

• “The overseer always went around with a whip, about nine feet long, made of the toughest kind of cowhide, the but-end of which was loaded with lead, and was about four or five inches in circumference, running to a point at the opposite extremity.”

  Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

• “Once in that position his clothing was torn from his body, his arms and legs pinioned, and his bare back flogged with a "cowhide" until the blood ran from it, and the gashes made in his flesh by the cruel strokes presented a ghastly spectacle as they gaped open.”

  Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There

• “He goes so far as to threaten to come to Staunton and "cowhide" David in the middle of Main Street.”

  Augusta County: E. J. Evans to David H. Evans, August, 1868

• “The overseer always went around with a whip, about nine feet long, made of the toughest kind of cowhide, the but-end of which was loaded with lead, and was about four or five inches in circumference, running to a point at the opposite”

  Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman--,

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