English Etymology From ox + hide. Noun oxhide (countable and uncountable, plural oxhides) The skin (hide) of an ox. Leather made from the hide of an ox. 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked:There are four flutes, a harp of twenty strings, a mournful shawm, and a number of drums of oxhide, some to be struck, others spanked. Derived terms oxhide ingot Translations hide Bulgarian: волска кожа f (volska koža) Dutch: ossenhuid (nl) c Finnish: häräntalja Russian: воловья шкура (volovʹja škura) Swedish: oxhud c leather Bulgarian: гьон m (gjon) Finnish: härännahka See also cowhide Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.