cowskin n.
(US) a whip.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Modern Chivalry (1937) Pt I Vol. II Bk VI 150: At the various applications of the cowskin, he had jumped, and cursed, and swore. | |
| Modern Chivalry (1937) Pt II Vol. II Bk III 483: Doctor Mountebank, who affected now and then to chastise him with a cow-skin, to teach him manners. | |
| Clockmaker I 89: Now do, marm, find out some other place to give your cattle the cowskin. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | ‘Plunder Creek’ in Bentley’s Misc. Feb. 126: You tarnation nigger! Who told you to laugh? You calkilate as I harn’t got the cowskins here. |
In compounds
(W.I.) a plantation overseer.
![[WI]](/static/img/flags/wi.png "West Indies") | cited in Dict. Jam. Eng. (1980). |