Meanings of covered with hides in English

They built for themselves therefore a curragh or coracle, covered with hides three deep.

They had no dishes except baskets and gourd-rinds, and their houses were tent-poles covered with hides.

I sat at a table covered with hides.

You would see the attacking force advancing a huge wooden tower, covered with hides and placed on wheels, towards the walls.

These are round like ovens, and covered with hides; by the mouth of each, a tapering chuzo was stuck in the ground.

The new wall was covered with hides, raw and dressed, to protect the timber and the workmen from being injured by burning arrows.

There were gallipagos, or tortoises, also being great wooden shields, covered with hides, to protect the assailants and those who undermined the walls.

Jondalar and Thonolan watched with interest the assembly of a large structure, circular, with straight walls covered with hides, and a domed, thatched roof.