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Entry 4 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Leather

/(lĕt͟h"ẽr)/ · Leath·er · IPA /ˈlɛðɚ/
01 n. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hid…
  1. 1.
    The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
  2. 2.
    The skin.[Ironical or Sportive]
Phrases & compounds
Leather board — an imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps, rags, paper, etc.
Leather carp — , a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under Carp.
Leather jacket — A California carangoid fish (Oligoplites saurus).
Leather flower — a climbing plant (Clematis Viorna) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color.
Leather leaf — a low shrub (Cassandra calyculata), growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy leaves.
Leather plant — one or more New Zealand plants of the composite genus Celmisia, which have white or buff tomentose leaves.
Leather turtle — See Leatherback.
Vegetable leather — An imitation of leather made of cotton waste.
02 v. t. To beat, as with a thong of leather.
imp. & p. p. Leathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Leathering
  1. 1.
    To beat, as with a thong of leather.[Obs. or Colloq.]
03 a. Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.
  1. 1.
    Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.