oxhide

Example Sentences

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But put aside two broadswords and two spears for our own use, two oxhide shields nearby when we go into action.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Outside in the entry way he made his bed—raw oxhide spread on level ground, and heaped up fleeces, left from sheep the Akhaians killed.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

He wore a tunic, patched and soiled, and leggings— oxhide patches, bound below his knees against the brambles; gauntlets on his hands and on his head a goatskin cowl of sorrow.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

In those days metals were cast into various shapes called ingots, and included in the ship’s cargo were thirty-four four-handled copper ingots called oxhide ingots because they were shaped like a stretched-out oxhide.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

When Odysseus came, the good servant sat shaping to his feet oxhide for sandals, cutting the well-cured leather.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer