What does hide-bound mean?

hide-bound

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.20 in modern English

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"O, I know he's a good fellow--you needn't frown--an excellent fellow, and I always mean to see more of him; but a hide-bound pedant for all that; an ignorant, blatant pedant."
"To such a hide-bound Great Western man as myself it did not at first prove a very congenial diet."

more hide-bound (comparative) most hide-bound (superlative)

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