How To Use Cowskin In A Sentence
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In modern times, cotton cloth has come to replace cowskins as a means of draping the body.
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They are made of hollowed out tree trunks with cowskin stretched on either end and tied with rawhide strips.
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The furnishings and artwork are simple: a white sofa, a red chair and cowskin-upholstered dining chairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the information of my readers, I must observe that a cowskin is a large whip, made like a riding whip, out of the hide of the hippopotamus, or sea-cow, and is proverbial for the severity of punishment it is capable of inflicting.
Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
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A worn cowskin jacket was draped over his skinny shoulders.
LUCKY
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Paintings on cowskin also hang on the walls adding a Latin flavour to the atmosphere.
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The phrase itself expresses this antipathy; and when applied by a negro to a white man is regarded by the latter as a dire insult, and usually procures for the imprudent black a scoring with the "cowskin," or a slight "rubbing down" with the "oil of hickory.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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There was the regular "negro-trader," a tall lathy fellow, with harsh horse-dealer features, careless dress, loose coat, slouching broad-brimmed hat, coarse boots, and painted quirt of raw hide, -- the "cowskin," -- fit emblem of his calling.
The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
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AN HOUR later, Kim was sitting on the cowskin couch.
Vicious Grace
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The cowskin is a kind of whip seldom seen in the northern states.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith.
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In answering the proposed inquiries, I will say first, that although there are various other modes resorted to, whipping with the cowskin is the usual mode of inflicting punishment on the poor slave.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4
