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Webster 1913 Edition


Leathern

Leath′ern

,
Adj.
Made of leather; consisting of leather;
as, a
leathern
purse
.
“A leathern girdle about his loins.”
Matt. iii. 4.

Definition 2024


leathern

leathern

English

Adjective

leathern (not comparable)

  1. (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.
    • 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warlord of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
      Except for his leathern harness, covered thick with jewels and metal []