Meaning & use
Cowskin
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The hide of a cow, especially when tanned or used as leather; also, historically, a whip made from cowhide.
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The rustic chair was upholstered in cowskin.
In some 19th-century accounts, overseers punished laborers with a cowskin whip.
A note on using this word
The whip sense of "cowskin" is now largely historical and carries strong associations with slavery-era punishment in some regions.
Words with a similar meaning
cowhide
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