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.

Derived terms

• oxhide ingot

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