Oxhide

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The skin (hide) of an ox. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Leather made from the hide of an ox. countable, uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From ox + hide.

Related phrases

oxhide ingot

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