Anagrams of: COWHIDING

• To eat.

• To call a discarded tile to produce a chow.

• rebuking a person harshly

• lifting device consisting of a horizontal cylinder turned by a crank on which a cable or rope winds

• pull or lift up with or as if with a winch

• informal terms for a meal

• the imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC; notable for the rise of Confucianism and Taoism

• breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China

• female of domestic cattle:

• mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull'

• a large unpleasant woman

• subdue, restrain, or overcome by affecting with a feeling of awe; frighten (as with threats)

• A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout

• A malevolent and violent cannibal spirit found in Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, and Cree mythology, which is said to inhabit the body of a living person and possess him or her to commit murder.

• the activity of keeping something secret

• the state of being hidden

• a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories

• a supporter of the American Revolution

• a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War