Definitions for cowskin

cowskin cow·skin

Spelling: [kou-skin]
IPA: /ˈkaʊˌskɪn/

Cowskin is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 156 anagrams from letters in cowskin (ciknosw).

Definitions for cowskin

noun

  1. the skin of a cow.
  2. the leather made from it.

Origin of cowskin

An Americanism dating back to 1730-40; cow1 + skin

Examples for cowskin

cowskin is good for books which are to be much handled and are likely to be worn out and discarded within five years.

On the way, feeling lazy, he wrapped himself in his cowskin and went to sleep in a barn's hay-mow.

After the cowskin was dried up, Ned started for town to sell it.

Buffing is practically only the grain of cowskin from which almost all the flesh has been split.

Ned's cow died, and he hung the cowskin up in the barn to dry, too lazy to carry it to market.

If time suffice, you might cross over into the valley of the cowskin and learn the condition of forage there as well.

The militia wore such toggery as they could get—grey homespun coat with red sash, cowskin boots, and the traditional tuque bleue.

The overseer stands at the quarter door, armed with stick and cowskin, ready to whip any who may be a few minutes behind time.

The cowskin is a kind of whip seldom seen in the northern states.

IT was well into the third day when we came down into the fertile valley of the cowskin.

Word Value for cowskin
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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