lash vs cowhide

lash and cowhide both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
lash	Yes	No	Yes	No
cowhide	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, cowhide is a hyponym of lash; that is, cowhide is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than lash:

Other hyponyms of lash include flagellate, scourge, leather, horsewhip, switch, cat, birch.

lash (noun)	cowhide (noun)
a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object	a heavy flexible whip braided from leather made from the hide of a cow
leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip	leather made from the hide of a cow
any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids	the hide of a cow

lash (verb)	cowhide (verb)
strike as if by whipping	flog with a cowhide
beat severely with a whip or rod
bind with a rope, chain, or cord
lash or flick about sharply