oxhide

noun — 2 senses

oxhide

noun

Etymology From ox + hide.

1

The skin (hide) of an ox.

2

Leather made from the hide of an ox.

  • There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked.1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:
Derived terms
oxhide ingot
Related terms
cowhide

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