hide-bound

A form of hidebound — Bound with the hide of an animal.

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Meanings

adjectivehide-bound (comparative more hide-bound, superlative most hide-bound)

comparative more hide-bound · superlative most hide-bound

  1. alternativeAlternative form of hidebound.

    To such a hide-bound Great Western man as myself it did not at first prove a very congenial diet.

    1944 November and December, Talisman, “A Broadening Horizon”, in Railway Magazine, page 339
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    O, I know he's a good fellow--you needn't frown--an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant.

    1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
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APA

hide-bound. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hide-bound

MLA

“hide-bound.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hide-bound. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hide-bound,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hide-bound.

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