Definition of Oxhide. Meaning of Oxhide. Synonyms of Oxhide

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Definition of Oxhide

Oxhide
Oxhide Ox"hide`, n. 1. The skin of an ox, or leather made from it. 2. (O. Eng. Law) A measure of land. See 3d Hide.

Meaning of Oxhide from wikipedia

- Ingots Oxhide ingots are heavy (20–30 kg) metal slabs, usually of copper but sometimes of tin, produced and widely distributed during the Mediterranean...
- Oxhide (Chinese: 牛皮; pinyin: niú pí), directed by Liu Jiayin, is a 2005 narrative independent Chinese film that portrays the director's family and their...
- s****ped because of stress induced cracks and butt deformation. Ancient copper oxhide ingot from Zakros, Crete. The ingot is shaped in the form of an animal skin...
- what was used as a currency for these exchanges, but it is thought that oxhide-shaped ingots of copper, produced in Cyprus, may have functioned as a currency...
- family against the side of the Breen cabin. The families used canvas or oxhide to patch the faulty roofs. The cabins had no windows or doors, only large...
- Mehmet Çakir's sketching of “the metal biscuits with ears” recognized as oxhide ingots. Turkish sponge divers were often consulted by the Institute of Nautical...
- offered them as much land as could be covered with a single oxhide. Therefore, Dido cut an oxhide into tiny strips and set them on the ground end to end until...
- journeying, only as much land as could be encomp****ed by an oxhide. They agreed. Dido cut the oxhide into fine strips so that she had enough to encircle an...
- tribe, which told her that she could get as much land as an oxhide could cover. She cut the oxhide into strips and laid out the perimeter of the new city....
- recounted by Lord Kelvin: those lands bordering the sea that Queen Dido could enclose on all other sides within a single given oxhide, cut into strips....