oxhide
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When Odysseus came, the good servant sat shaping to his feet oxhide for sandals, cutting the well-cured leather.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
He spread his hands, and the tables were suddenly covered with equipment: helmets, bronze swords, spears, oxhide shields coated in metal.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
He wore a tunic, patched and soiled, and leggings— oxhide patches, bound below his knees against the brambles; gauntlets on his hands and on his head a goatskin cowl of sorrow.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
In those days metals were cast into various shapes called ingots, and included in the ship’s cargo were thirty-four four-handled copper ingots called oxhide ingots because they were shaped like a stretched-out oxhide.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
But put aside two broadswords and two spears for our own use, two oxhide shields nearby when we go into action.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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