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You can call it what you choose Was it the kind of a strip of leather commonly known as a rawhide It was What other mode of punishment did you practise on this child besides rawhiding him I can't recall any Did you pull his ears Probably Pinch his flesh Sometimes Pull his hair Oh, I shouldn't wonder Knock him down with your fist No, sir!

—Burnham Breaker

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American Heritage Dictionary (3)

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

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I made soup for Raven and Nothing by boiling grass roots, rawhide, and crushed bone. — F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 06 - December 1995
Swiftly he hobbled the horses with lengths of rawhide, then joined Druss. — David A
He was as thin as a strip of rawhide, and as durable. — 097 - The All-White Elf
Patch has been posted to lkml and I've shoved it into rawhide, so that'll improve things for most Toshiba users. — Planet GNOME
Remember Liberators with flowers - well I guess flowers are made out of rawhide or pleader, coming at our heads like it was hurled by major league pitcher. — Cafferty File