[f. prec. sb., sense 3.] trans. To flog with a cow-hide.
1855. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), IV. 356. He got his skin well beaten—cow-hided, as we may say—by Charles XII., the rough Swede, clad mostly in leather.
1864. W. W. Whitby, American Slavery, 194. A queer association of incident certainly! Reading Pope’s Messiah—cowhiding the half-naked back of a slave, and joining in the devotion of the family.
1874. M. Collins, Frances, III. 84. Cowhided by a lady.
Hence Cow-hiding vbl. sb.
1832–4. De Quincey, Cæsars, Wks. IX. 50. Dacia, that needed a cow-hiding for insolence.
1889. Sat. Rev., 23 March, 341/1. Tall talk, which would hardly procure an extra cowhiding per diem for a Bowery editor.
