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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishlether, fromOld Englishleþer(“leather”), fromProto-West Germanic*leþr, fromProto-Germanic*leþrą(“leather”), possibly borrowed fromProto-Celtic*ɸlitrom,*letros, fromProto-Indo-European*pl̥tro-.

Cognate withWest Frisianleare(“leather”),Low GermanLeder(“leather”),Dutchleder,leer(“leather”),GermanLeder(“leather”),Danishlæder(“leather”),Swedishläder(“leather”),Icelandicleður(“leather”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Leather (sense 1)

leather (countable anduncountable,pluralleathers)

  2. A tough material produced from theskin ofanimals, bytanning or similar process, used e.g. forclothing;often denotes leather from cattle when no qualifier specifies otherwise.
    Coordinate term:pseudoleather
  3. A piece of the above used forpolishing.
  4. (colloquial) Acricket ball orfootball.
    • 1918, M. M. Guy,Joe Doughty, page157:
      The goalee made a frantic grab as theleather spun clean past him, but he was just a second too late, and Joe had scored for Redcliff.
  5. (plural:leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn bymotorcycle riders.
  6. (baseball) A good defensive play
    Jones showed goodleather to snare thatliner.
  7. (boxing) Apunch.
  8. (dated, humorous) Theskin.
  9. Clipping offruit leather.

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Descendants

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Translations

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material produced by tanning animal skin
piece of leather used for polishing
colloquial: cricket ball or football
leather clothing
baseball: good defensive play

Adjective

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leather (notcomparable)

  1. Made of leather.
    Synonym:leathern
  2. Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign ofsadomasochistichomosexuality.
  3. Referring to anestablishment offamilial relations through agreedsexual orromanticdeviance.
    • 2021 June 14, Ellora Vilkin, Richard Sprott, “Consensual Non-Monogamy Among Kink-Identified Adults: Characteristics, Relationship Experiences, and Unique Motivations for Polyamory and Open Relationships”, inArchives of Sexual Behavior, volume50,→DOI, pages1521–1536:
      Some research has documented the phenomenon ofleather families as a form of intentional, chosen families created by members of sexual and gender minority groups, often in the face of biological family rejection and marginalization in society (Bauer, 2010; Hammack et al., 2019; Murphy & Bjorngaard, 2019; Pitagora, 2016).Leather families are a network of people that acknowledge and practice ongoing supportive relationships “while sharing the commonalities of the leather and kink scene” (Bannon, 2016). […] Very few studies have examined how many people are members ofleather or other “chosen” families.

Translations

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made of leather

Verb

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leather (third-person singular simple presentleathers,present participleleathering,simple past and past participleleathered)

  1. (transitive) To cover with leather.
    • 2015, Rain Trueax,Lands of Fire:
      He rose andleathered his Colt as his father came to stand beside him.
  2. (ambitransitive) To form aleathery surface (on).
    • 2003, Bonita Wagner,Satan's Choice, page66:
      By the appearance of his deep suntan, which hadleathered his skin, and the calluses that covered his hands, Sheriff Anderson figured the man to be one of the area ranchers.
    • 2020, Merlin Sheldrake,Entangled Life, page83:
      Someleather and droop like bat wings, others, as the poet Brenda Hillman writes, are 'hung in hashtags'.
  4. (transitive) To strike forcefully.
    Heleathered the ball all the way down the street.
  5. (transitive) Tospank orbeat with a leatherbelt orstrap.
    • 1806, Andrew Kippis,The New Annual Register:
      My father was very angry with me— -he took andleathered ( beat) me, because I ran away from my school ; for I did run away from my school ; he took and tied me up on a Sunday morning,leathered me a Friday night, and Saturday night : I was stripped naked when heleathered me on Friday night, and Saturday; my father told me to strip myself, and heleathered me, it was with a whip; but I do not know where he got the whip; he tied me with my arms extended so -- (spreading out her arms to their extremity, as if they were to be nailed upon a cross) -- My legs were tied too -- I was at the bottom of the dresser.
    • 2005, H. Salisbury,Betrayed,→ISBN, page 4:
      My father was furious with me and reached for the strap. He brutallyleathered me with it before sending me to bed for the night.
    • 2011, Agnes Owens,Agnes Owens: The Complete Novellas,→ISBN:
      Anyway, bums were always on view in our family, gettingleathered with a heavy belt.

Derived terms

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Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verbleather

References

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  1. ^Bingham, Caleb (1808), “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, inThe Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎[1], 12th edition,Boston: Manning & Loring,→OCLC,page75.
  2. ^Hurd, Seth P. (1847), “Leather”, in “False Pronunciation”, inA Grammatical Corrector; or, A Vocabulary of the Common Errors of Speech‎[2],Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co,→OCLC,page85.

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