rawhide
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Metal ring bits adopted from the Spanish caused distinctive fractures in an animal’s teeth and palate; rawhide bridles developed by Native people wore telltale grooves in the lower jaw.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 29, 2023
There is also a chief’s coat from the Athabascan people with floral beaded designs, rawhide fringe and red felt ties from the 1950s.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022
It’s clear from the jump that Phil was in love with him: the butchest cowboy who ever roamed the range, the man who taught him to braid rawhide.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022
Three days later, the campaign chiefs from Florida and Arizona were summoned to the Roosevelt Room, where Trump gnawed on them furiously like a dog with a length of old rawhide.
From Salon • May 31, 2020
Old enough to be her grandmother, Nin was a squat woman with matted hair and a face as tough as rawhide.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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