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Webster 1913 Edition
Leathern
Leath′ern
,Adj.
Made of leather; consisting of leather;
“A leathern girdle about his loins.” as, a
. leathern
purseMatt. iii. 4.
Definition 2024
leathern
leathern
English
Adjective
leathern (not comparable)
- (dated) Made of leather.
- Charles Lamb, The Essays of Elia
- He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
- Charles Lamb, The Essays of Elia