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Cowhide is the skin of a cow, or the leather made from that skin. Boots, belts, bags, and saddles are often cowhide; it is thick and tough compared with many other leathers. Hide in this family means an animal’s skin, not “to go where nobody can see you.” In older English a strip of cowhide was also a whip, and to cowhide someone was to beat them with it — you still meet that verb in old stories, though people do not say it much in ordinary talk now. The everyday word is the material: a cowhide jacket, a length of cowhide. Rawhide is the same skin before it has been fully made into soft leather; once it is tanned and finished, we are usually happy to say cowhide or just leather.
牛皮
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cowhidenoun/ˈkaʊˌhaɪd/
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A hide of a cow.
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Any quantity of hides of cows.
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Leather made from the hide of cows.
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A coarse whip made of untanned leather.
- “Luke did his work,” I said. “How could your father sell him?” “He worked all right. And the hands would work hard for him—mostly without the cowhide. But sometimes he didn't show much sense.”
cowhideverb/ˈkaʊˌhaɪd/
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To flog with a cowhide.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。