rawhide
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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
Or if the buckskin has been washed for five days in a row, it turns into rawhide.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2022
After a final round of soaking and drying, he had a reasonable skin of rawhide for rope and fishing-lines.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
"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
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
For 15 minutes she rawhided the critic in German.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they also knew him as a rawhiding commander who knew no friends.
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
Krug remained silent; he suffered Lewis's rawhiding without complaint.
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
I was rawhiding myself to beat the everlasting band at the prospect of having to make this long, tiresome day jump alone, and it's done me a heap of good to talk you to frazzles.
From Branded by Lynde, Francis
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