calfhide

English[edit]

calf +‎ hide

calfhide (plural calfhides)

(countable) The hide of a calf.
- 1929, Arthur H. Carhart, Stanley P. Young, The Last Stand of the Pack:
  Among them was a calfhide. He handled it with cotton leather-palmed gloves that had been buried with the rest of his plunder.
- 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses, →ISBN, page 231:
  An old calfhide was nailed to one wall and there was no glass to the windows for the frames and sash were long since burned for firewood.
(uncountable) Synonym of calfskin
- 1992, Mark Robbins, Angles of Incidence, page 36:
  The door to the upper part, which is covered in calfhide with zinc flashing, is connected to a rack.