Other early "cowskin"s, as verb

[Joel S. Berson]

Google Books yields perhaps 4 additional instances of "cowskin" as a
verb (cowskin-ned/-ning/-s) between 1801 and Hawthorne's of 1831, but
none by as distinguished an author.

Joel

At 3/23/2010 05:21 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>...
>B.  The OED cites "cow-skin" as a verb for 1799, 1836 (Mr. Crockett),
>a1849 (Poe), and later.  A couple of early interdatings:
>...
>(2)  1831, from that quick adopter of low contemporary usage, earlier
>than Davy or Edgar:
>
>1831 Aug. 17.  Nathaniel Hawthorne to Louisa Hawthorne.
>In Nathaniel Hawthorne, _The Letters_, _The Centenary Edition of the
>Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne_, Vol. 15, p. 214.
>
>I make innumerable acquaintances, and sit down, ... discoursing about
>... the cowskinning of Isaac Hill.

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