"concealment," early 13c., verbal noun from hide, v.1. Hiding place is from mid-15c.; an Old English word for this was hydels.

"a flogging," 1809, from hide, n.1, perhaps in reference to a whip or thong made of animal hide. Old English had hyde ðolian "to undergo a flogging," and hydgild "fine paid to save one's skin (from a punishment by flogging)." The English expression a hiding to nothing (by 1905) referred to a situation where there was disgrace in defeat and no honor in victory.