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rawhide

UK/ˈɹɔːhaɪd/US/ˈɹɔhaɪd/

rawhide noun: untanned hide.

Noun

rawhide (countable and uncountable, plural rawhides)

  1. Untanned hide.
    • This throw was fair; the white cow came to earth again; and before it could rise Santa had made the lasso fast around a post of the corral with a swift and simple knot, and had leaped upon the cow again with the rawhide hobbles.1907, O. Henry, Hearts and Crosses
  2. (countable) A whip made from twisted untanned leather.

Verb

rawhide (third-person singular simple present rawhides, present participle rawhiding, simple past and past participle rawhided)

  1. (transitive) To clear (a pump) of sediment by starting and stopping it repeatedly.
  2. (transitive) To beat with a rawhide whip.

rawhide meaning in Tamil

rawhide in Tamil

தோல்

Forms of rawhide

Noun
pluralrawhides
Verb
third-person singular presentrawhides
present participlerawhiding
past participlerawhided
pastrawhided

Plural of rawhide: rawhides

Origin of rawhide

From raw + hide.

Words formed from rawhide

Questions about rawhide

What does rawhide mean?
Rawhide means untanned hide.
What is rawhide in Tamil?
Rawhide in Tamil is தோல். See Rawhide meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rawhide?
Rawhide can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce rawhide?
Rawhide is pronounced /ˈɹɔːhaɪd/ (UK).
What is the plural of rawhide?
The plural of rawhide is rawhides.

Words near rawhide in the dictionary

  1. rawed
  2. rawer
  3. Rawes
  4. rawest
  5. rawhead and bloodybones
  6. rawhide
  7. rawhided
  8. rawhider
  9. rawhiders
  10. rawhides
  11. rawhiding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rawhide (page history and authors); rawhide (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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