rawhiden.adj.
/ˈrɔːhʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈrɔˌ(h)aɪd/, /ˈrɑˌ(h)aɪd/ A. n.
1.
a. As a count noun (usually in form raw hide): an untanned or undressed cattle hide. Cf. raw adj. 2a.
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a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) f. 97 (MED) Loke þou ordeyne þat þe leues of þe ȝates ben keuered & heled wiþ rawe hydes or skynnes [L. coriis], & aboue þat wel plated wiþ yren.
1550 Orig. Jrnls. House of Lords (MS) 31 Jan. 2 194/3 Eodem die prima lecta est Billa for bying of rawe hydes and calf skynnes.
1658 Plymouth Coll. Rec. (1861) XI. 119 It is enacted by the Court that after December 1658 noe raw hides..shalbee Transported out of the Gourment.
1704 London Gaz. No. 4004/3 A Parcel of Raw Hides.
1791 Ann. 1st Congr. 2131 Duties [must] be laid on..raw hides, beaver, and all other furs.
1801 Hist. Rev. & Directory 1 110 The produce of North Carolina is..lumber, tallow, raw hides.
1865 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 273 Most of them sleep on raw ox-hides... One sees..the families reclining on these rawhides in all stages of dress below semi-nakedness.
1913 I. Cowie Company of Adventurers 213 [They] were hauled outside by an ox hitched to a rawhide instead of a cart or sled, which served the purpose better.
1958 N. Harris & F. Hawthorne New Denver 6/1 In olden days they used to sack all the ore and then pack it in winter on raw hides or sleighs to the wharfs.
2000 S. G. Forden House of Gucci (2001) ii. 10 Guccio, now working for Franzi, a leather crafts company in Florence, learned how to select raw hides, and studied curing and tanning.
b. As a mass noun: untanned or undressed hide.
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1763 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 428/2 Cæstus, in antiquity, a large gantlet made of raw hide... This was a kind of leathern strap.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 508 A racquet or hurl..is an implement..somewhat resembling a laddle or scoop-net, with a handle near three feet in length, the hoop and handle of wood, and the netting of thongs of raw hide.
1845 Amer. Rev. Feb. 127/2 The ‘quirt’, with its long heavy lash of knotted raw-hide.
1882 Cent. Mag. Dec. 202/2 The aged grandfather of this group was..on the sunny terrace with bits of raw hide, strands of buckskin, or head-scratching.
1923 J. H. Cook Fifty Years on Old Frontier 12 It was not many months before I could work up rawhide into saddle rigging, ropes, quirts and reins.
1979 Tucson (Arizona) Mag. Apr. 28/2 Sometimes the whole door was of rawhide.
2003 S. King Wolves of Calla Epilogue iii. 701 This [ring] Susannah had worn between her breasts, hung on a length of rawhide.
2. North American. A strip of rawhide used as a whip; a whip or (less commonly) rope made of rawhide. Occasionally as a mass noun. Cf. cowhide n. 3.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [noun] > rope or thong of raw hide
rawhide1829
shaganappi1873
1829 Massachusetts Spy 16 Sept. 2/4 She..took down a raw hide..and..kept the whip moving.
1852 S. Moodie Roughing it in Bush I. viii. 153 Yesterday, I forgot to take the oxen out of the yoke, and Musther William tied me up to a stump, and bate me with the raw hide.
1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 174 He called to Peters and his companions to slacken the rawhide, and by this means they lowered him.
1941 J. Stuart Men of Mountains 345 The men are..spurrin 'em and usin the rawhides.
1944 H. Evatt Snow Owl's Secret 85 The huskies do like the sound of the singing rawhide.
1987 X. Hollander Happy Hooker (rev. ed.) xii. 216 Every good master needs at the very minimum a good set of manacles, whips, rawhides, handcuffs, chains, paddles, and a dildo.
B. adj. (attributive).
1. Chiefly U.S. Made of rawhide.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > made of
skinc1503
hided1807
rawhide1812
1812 J. Mawe Trav. Interior Brazil xix. 318 It is packed in waste raw-hide packages.
1833 J. Stuart Three Years in N. Amer. I. vi. 92 The convicts are instantly punished by stripes inflicted by the keeper..with a raw hide whip.
1878 Smithsonian Misc. Coll. XIII. No. 6. 83 Split-leather, grain-leather, rawhide thongs.
1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 30 Mar. 4 Yore rawhide rope will bust in twenty pieces in a minute!
1973 J. Wainwright Devil you Don't 14 The expensive, rawhide shirt.
2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. on Miracles at Little No Horse 153 [He] peered into the tortoiseshell hand mirror that hung around his neck by a rawhide thong.
2. U.S. figurative. Tough; hardened; (also) earthy.
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the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible > of a person
hardenedc1480
stout1586
ramrod1850
rawhide1883
hard-assed1954
stainless steel1963
1883 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang i. 18 I'm just pining away for a fight. I'm a rawhide Texan, I am.
1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. iii. 21 Here came this rawhide old-timer Nebraska farmer.
1976 A. Murray Stomping Blues iv. 51 Down from the cloudlike realms of abstraction and fantasy to the bluesteel and rawhide textures of..the everyday struggle for existence.
1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 Jan. 5/3 A work of riveting interest for its portrait of the misshapen bodies, language, highway felonies, and idiotic plans and dreams of two savage, rawhide murderers.
2004 S. Hunter Hell Bent for Leather (2005) iv. 55 This is the only Aerosmith album you honestly need to buy—it's a rawhide goddamn masterpiece.
Compounds
C1. Parasynthetic.
rawhide-bottomed adj.
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1850 H. C. Lewis Odd Leaves Life Louisiana Swamp Doctor 149 On a raw-hide-bottomed chair, I sat in that log cabin.
1889 Harper's Mag. Dec. 119/1 Old Uncle Dicky Crawls, tilted back against the chimney jamb, in a rawhide-bottomed chair.
1999 Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Nexis) 26 Feb. 2 When he wasn't trading horses or cattle, he would make his rawhide-bottomed furniture, swap antiques, write articles for True West magazine and collect Western weapons.
C2.
rawhide trail n. Canadian Mining (now historical) a path or route used for rawhiding ore; cf. rawhide v. 2.
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1896 Brit. Columbia Mining Rec. Nov. 21/1 When the rawhide trail..is completed and snow on the ground, the weekly shipments will be increased to several carloads.
1897 Slocan (Brit. Columbia) Pioneer 8 May 1/2 A rawhide and pack trail has been constructed from the town of Brandon to the Two Friends mine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
rawhidev.
/ˈrɔːhʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈrɔˌ(h)aɪd/, /ˈrɑˌ(h)aɪd/ 1. U.S. regional (western).
a. transitive. U.S. To strike or drive with or as with a rawhide whip. Cf. cowhide v.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge
swingc725
scourc1386
whipc1386
lash1398
bescourgea1400
swaipa1400
flail14..
belash1458
stripec1460
leash1503
flagelle1551
swingea1556
breech1573
lace1599
flagellate1623
slash1631
chawbuck1682
innocentize1708
swepe1710
belace1736
screenge1787
yedder1818
stock-whip1852
rawhide1858
1858 N.Y. Times 4 Feb. 5 One of our citizens was rawhided in the street..by a Mr. Huntington.
1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi iii. 61 Some raftsmen would rawhide you until you were black and blue!
1906 Washington Post 12 Dec. 3 (headline) Boy shoots his father. Angry because he was rawhided for playing truant at school.
1949 Sat. Evening Post 7 May 103/1 Joe went along as packer, rawhiding a string of bony horses up into the brownie country.
1990 T. C. Johnston Sioux Dawn xxxv. 350 The young infantry lieutenant rawhided the cavalry like cattle, driving them forward toward Fetterman up the ridge.
2001 P. D. Smith Land Remembered x. 71 They rawhided me good, whupped me like I ain't never been whupped befo'.
b. transitive. To overwork or mistreat (a person); (also) to attack verbally; to tease; to criticize sharply.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)]
threac897
threapc897
begripea1000
threata1000
castea1200
chaste?c1225
takec1275
blame1297
chastya1300
sniba1300
withnima1315
undernima1325
rebukec1330
snuba1340
withtakea1340
reprovec1350
chastisea1375
arate1377
challenge1377
undertake1377
reprehenda1382
repreync1390
runta1398
snapea1400
underfoc1400
to call to account1434
to put downc1440
snebc1440
uptakec1440
correptc1449
reformc1450
reprise?c1450
to tell (a person) his (also her, etc.) own1450
control1451
redarguec1475
berisp1481
to hit (cross) one over (of, on) the thumbs1522
checkc1530
admonish1541
nip1548
twig?1550
impreve1552
lesson1555
to take down1562
to haul (a person) over the coals1565
increpate1570
touch1570
school1573
to gather up1577
task1580
redarguate?1590
expostulate1592
tutor1599
sauce1601
snip1601
sneap1611
to take in tax1635
to sharp up1647
round1653
threapen1671
reprimand1681
to take to task1682
document1690
chapter1693
repulse1746
twink1747
to speak to ——1753
haul1795
to pull up1799
carpet1840
rig1841
to talk to1860
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
rawhide1895
to tell off1897
to tell (someone) where he or she gets off1900
to get on ——1904
to put (a person) in (also into) his, her place1908
strafe1915
tick1915
woodshed1935
to slap (a person) down1938
sort1941
bind1942
bottle1946
mat1948
ream1950
zap1961
elder1967
society > occupation and work > working > [verb (transitive)] > set (person) to work > overwork
overtravaila1382
slave1699
sweat1821
haze1840
drudge1847
horse1867
slave-drive1878
rawhide1895
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > sharply
touch1526
quip1572
quib1580
quirk1596
hit1843
rawhide1895
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex > tease
tease1627
rag1749
lugger1782
gammon1801
tig1805
fun1811
run1828
ride1891
rawhide1895
to bust (a person's) chops1953
stir1972
to pull a person's chain1975
1895 Railway Agent & Station Agent Feb. 2/1 As for the train dispatcher, we all know what he is—a petty tyrant..whose most arduous duties consists in rawhiding us poor wretches out on the line.
1907 Reader Sept. 346 They used to rawhide me something fierce in the company... I got all the extra duty there was.
1914 B. Dixon Life ‘Billy’ Dixon v. 122 He was teased and rawhided until he left camp.
1996 J. A. Benner Uncle Comanche 13 He could hear his father rawhiding Mason about the three helpings of cobbler the sergeant had taken for dessert.
2. transitive. Mining (chiefly Canadian). To transport (ore, etc.) by dragging it in bundles wrapped in untanned hides. Now historical.
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1895 Brit. Columbia Mining Rec. Nov. 9/2 The force at the mine is engaged in getting out ore and sacking it ready for transportation, as soon as it can be rawhided.
1936 Fortune Oct. 109/2 A thousand pounds of it [sc. ore] they rawhided down the mountain to the railroad, with a blizzard at their backs.
1947 R. G. Bailey River No Return 179 In the winter it [sc. mail] was transported by sled.., or raw-hided—wrapped in a buffalo hide and pulled by horse or man power.
1975 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 14 Sept. 4/2 They took out ore that had been rawhided (wrapped in rawhides, horse pulled down the mountain) to the smelters.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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