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Etymology

Old English leþer

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular leather

Plural countable and uncountable; plural leathers

leather (countable and uncountable; plural leathers)

  1. A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
  2. A piece of leather used for polishing.
  3. (colloquialism) A cricket ball or football.
  4. (plural: leathers) Leather clothing, often worn by motorcycle riders.
  5. (baseball) A good defensive play
    Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.

See also

Adjective

leather (not comparable)

Positive leather

Comparative not comparable

Superlative none (absolute)
  1. Made of leather.
  2. Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.

See also

Translations

made of leather
  • Bosnian: kožni bs(bs) m.
  • Dutch: leren nl(nl)
  • Finnish: nahka-, nahkainen
  • Persian: چرمی fa(fa) (charmi)
  • Polish: skórzany m., skórzana f., skórzane n.
  • Russian: кожаный ru(ru) (kóžanyj)
  • Serbian:
    Cyrillic: кожни m.
    Roman: kožni m.
  • Slovene: usnjen m., usnjena f., usnjeno n.
  • Turkish: deri tr(tr)

Verb

Infinitive to leather

Third person singular leathers

Simple past leathered

Past participle leathered

Present participle leathering

to leather (third-person singular simple present leathers, present participle leathering, simple past and past participle leathered)

  1. (Can we verify() this sense?) To polish or wipe with a leather.
  2. (Can we verify() this sense?) To beat or thrash with a leather.
  3. To cover with leather.

Derived terms

 

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