Significados de hippopotamus hide em inglês

This rudder, which is made of metal and covered with hippopotamus hide, is sharp and slightly rounded.

They had seen the whips of hippopotamus hide, long and flexible, translucent in the firelight like streams of amber.

Task masters with cruel whips of hippopotamus hide punished the sick and the fainting, as well as the lazy.

Sometimes this punishment is exceedingly severe, being inflicted with the coorbatch or whip of hippopotamus hide, which is cracked vigorously about his ribs and back.

Their sailless, raking masts, and canted yards, resembled a forest of fish-spears thrust into those same hippopotamus hides.

'Because, if you do, the hippopotamus hide hangs ready outside.'