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rawhide

[raw-hahyd] / ˈrɔˌhaɪd /


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Ziegler said he used the rawhide mallet to strike the gun, while the hammer was pulled back, from several directions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2024

In his early years on the court, Justice Thomas disclosed about 20 private plane flights and an assortment of other gifts, including cigars, a Daytona 500 jacket, a silver buckle and a rawhide coat.

From New York Times ● Jul. 9, 2023

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

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

He had broad shoulders and bulging arms, hands like hammers, and the leathery skin of a man who’d been sunburned so many times his naturally creamy complexion had grown tough and brown as rawhide.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German.

From Time Magazine Archive

Labor The two big-bodied, grim-faced men sat in their green-walled hotel suites in Washington and listened as the President rawhided them over the radio.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ollie" Burke kidded and rawhided them into battle shape, turned his engines at 31 knots, dressed each ship with a new in-signe: the "Little Beaver," a character from Artist Fred Harman's comic strip Red Ryder.

From Time Magazine Archive

Seldom had a top-rank businessman given business such a rawhiding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then, in a flood of intemperate language unmatched since his rawhiding of the striking railroad workers in 1946,* the President launched into an angry dressing-down of the whole steel industry.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the evenings he brought work home and labored far into the night, frequently calling staff members in for consultation or for rawhiding rebuke.

From Time Magazine Archive

Krug remained silent; he suffered Lewis's rawhiding without complaint.

From Time Magazine Archive

But here are the facts, and he knows it: for four years he's been rawhiding me at every chance with his practical jokes.

From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell


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