Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The hide of a horse.
  • noun Leather made from the hide of a horse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The hide of a horse.
  • noun Leather made of the hide of a horse.

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  • noun Hide of a horse.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun leather from the hide of a horse

Etymologies

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horse +‎ hide

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Examples

  • I tried a pair in cordovan, a k a horsehide, from Alden, the venerable brand based and made in Massachusetts, and thought I was onto something.

    NYT > Home Page By DAVID COLMAN 2010

  • I tried a pair in cordovan, a k a horsehide, from Alden, the venerable brand based (and made) in Massachusetts, and thought I was onto something.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • And he was probably right, for outside of the horse ( "you can lead a horse to water ...," "horse of a different color", "cart before the horse" etc.,) no other single concrete noun has contributed as many terms as has the "horsehide" sport.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 1977

  • Someone pushed at her and she lost her balance, falling forward onto horsehide.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Out on the field, the Braves players paired off and started tossing baseballs back and forth, the horsehide pounding leather rhythmically, like popcorn popping.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • Someone pushed at her and she lost her balance, falling forward onto horsehide.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Someone pushed at her and she lost her balance, falling forward onto horsehide.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • The boots were custom-made from horsehide, black with silver toe caps on them, initials cut from lizard skin.

    Eddie's Story TimChambers 2011

  • Out on the field, the Braves players paired off and started tossing baseballs back and forth, the horsehide pounding leather rhythmically, like popcorn popping.

    In the Time of Bobby Cox Lang Whitaker 2011

  • Or B, he covered an entire car once with horsehide, with hooves on the side and a horse head in the middle of the hood?

    Cowboy Delmar Smith Plays Not My Job 2010

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