The cowskin is a kind of whip seldom seen in the northern states.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman] Reference

“In the great cowskin trunk, Gumbo,” George says, gravely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

The next day the parties met on horseback, when Harper dismounted, and proceeded to cowskin Nevils for the chastisement inflicted on the negroes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

Bright, and, in consequence of some difficulty and intemperate language, thought proper to commence the service by the application of his cowskin to the defendant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference

He always went armed with a cowskin and a heavy cudgel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass] Reference

The cowskin tent became detached from her saddle, and a moment later.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Child Life] Reference

And here, by the way, I may let the British reader know what a cowskin is.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. Corrected and Arranged by Peter Neilson.] Reference

This generally has a far more decisive and lasting effect than a chastisement with the cowskin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Zamba, an African Negro King; and His Experience of Slavery in South Carolina. Written by Himself. Corrected and Arranged by Peter Neilson.] Reference

A few dilapidated chairs stood about, homemade looking chairs with concave seats of worn cowskin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Latchkey] Reference

Her mother makes her a new cowskin lodge, complete, with new lodge poles, lining, and back rests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackfoot Lodge Tales] Reference

Moccasins for winter use were made of buffalo robe, and of tanned buffalo cowskin for summer wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackfoot Lodge Tales] Reference

In summer a lighter robe was worn, made of cowskin or buckskin, from which the hair had been removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackfoot Lodge Tales] Reference

I loooooove the cowskin rug in the first pic. clampers on October 2nd 2009 at 11: 09am view clampers's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

On his back were thirty-seven gashes made with a cowskin, while on his head were many bruises besides.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist] Reference

When Cooper remarked that Cochran could not be in earnest the latter replied by a cut with his cowskin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Cooperstown] Reference

He carried a walking-stick freshly cut from the forest and his ailing cowskin boots were white with dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians] Reference

Inside, a lining, made of brightly painted cowskin, reached from the ground to a height of five or six feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackfoot Lodge Tales] Reference

Lodges were always made of tanned cowskin, nicely cut and sewn together, so as to form an almost perfect cone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackfoot Lodge Tales] Reference

Ciccio and Pancrazio were bargaining for two cowskin rugs: she saw Ciccio standing with his head rather forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Girl] Reference

The overseer stands at the quarter door, armed with stick and cowskin, ready to whip any who may be a few minutes behind time.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference

He went to the old women's lodge, and wrapped a strip of cowskin about his head, and commenced to groan, as if he was very sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackfoot Lodge Tales] Reference

He looked doubtfully down at the colour of his cowskin boots, and the mire upon the horses, for the sloughs were exceedingly mucky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference

Behind her stood old master, with cowskin in hand, preparing his barbarous work with all manner of harsh, coarse, and tantalizing epithets.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference

We were now in Kilronan, and as we parted they showed me holes in their own pampooties, or cowskin sandals, and asked me the price of new ones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aran Islands] Reference

The old man then ordered the eldest boy to begin his Pater Noster; and simultaneously the whipper-in elevated his cowskin by way of encouragement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer] Reference

The young men slept in a corner of the hut on a dry cowskin spread upon the mud floor, their saddles for pillows and their blankets rolled about them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Man Four-Square] Reference

He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue, would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass] Reference

The detention, of course, made our fellow-passengers more cross; and could I have obtained possession of the cowskin, I would certainly have thrown it overboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference