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LEATHER
leather
(noun) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning
leather
(verb) whip with a leather strap
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
leather (countable and uncountable, plural leathers)
A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
A piece of the above used for polishing.
(colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
(plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
(baseball) A good defensive play
(boxing) A punch.
(dated, humorous) The skin.
Hyponyms
(types of leather): chagrin, cordovan, cordwain, galuchat, maroquin, morocco, morocco leather, shagreen, sharkskin, taw
Adjective
leather (not comparable)
Made of leather.
Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
Verb
leather (third-person singular simple present leathers, present participle leathering, simple past and past participle leathered)
To cover with leather.
To strike forcefully.
To beat with a leather belt or strap.
Anagrams
• Tar Heel, Tarheel, haltere, lethera
Source: Wiktionary
Leath"er, n. Etym: [OE. lether, AS. le; akin to D. leder, leĆŖr, G. leder, OHG. ledar, Icel. le, Sw. lƤder, Dan. lƦder.]
1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
2. The skin. [Ironical or Sportive]
Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. Leather board, an imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps, rags, paper, etc.
– Leather carp (Zoƶl.) , a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under Carp.
– Leather jacket. (Zoƶl.) (a) A California carangoid fish (Oligoplites saurus). (b) A trigger fish (Balistes Carolinensis).
– Leather flower (Bot.), a climbing plant (Clematis Viorna) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color.
– Leather leaf (Bot.), a low shrub (Cassandra calyculata), growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy leaves.
– Leather plant (Bot.), one or more New Zealand plants of the composite genus Celmisia, which have white or buff tomentose leaves.
– Leather turtle. (Zoƶl.) See Leatherback.
– Vegetable leather. (a) An imitation of leather made of cotton waste. (b) Linen cloth coated with India rubber. Ure.
Leath"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Leathering.]
Definition: To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.] G. Eliot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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