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

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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

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Leath"er, n. Etym: [OE. lether, AS. le; akin to D. leder, leêr, G. leder, OHG. ledar, Icel. le, Sw. läder, Dan. læder.]

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 (Zoöl.) , a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under Carp.

– Leather jacket. (Zoöl.) (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. (Zoöl.) 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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