A whip cut out of a hide.
1829. She took down a raw hide, and kept the whip moving.—Mass. Spy, Sept. 16.
1835. Very few planters would permit them [their negroes] to be whipped on the bare back with a raw-hide, or cow-skin, as it is called.—Dr. J. W. Monett in App. to Ingraham, ‘The South-West,’ ii. 287.
1856. Power for Lion; pelf for Unicorn; raw-hides for John—ha! ha!—Knick. Mag., xlvii. 359 (April).
