oxhide

English

Etymology

From ox +‎ hide.

Noun

oxhide (countable and uncountable, plural oxhides)

1. The skin (hide) of an ox.
2. Leather made from the hide of an ox.
   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:

     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.

Translations

hide

• Bulgarian: волска кожа f (volska koža)
• Dutch: ossenhuid (nl) c
• Finnish: häräntalja
• Russian: воловья шкура (volovʹja škura)
• Swedish: oxhud c

leather

• Bulgarian: гьон m (gjon)
• Finnish: härännahka

See also

• cowhide