leather
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *letrosbor.
Proto-Germanic *leþrą
Proto-West Germanic *leþr
Old English leþer
Middle English lether
English leather
From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro-.
Cognate with West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”).
Inflected forms:
form: leathers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leathering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leathered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leathered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Made of leather.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
gloss: Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Referring to an establishment of familial relations through agreed sexual or romantic deviance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some research has documented the phenomenon of leather 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 of leather or other “chosen” families.
gloss: To cover with leather.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He rose and leathered his Colt as his father came to stand beside him.
gloss: To form a leathery surface (on).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: By the appearance of his deep suntan, which had leathered his skin, and the calluses that covered his hands, Sheriff Anderson figured the man to be one of the area ranchers.
Some leather and droop like bat wings, others, as the poet Brenda Hillman writes, are 'hung in hashtags'.
gloss: To strike forcefully.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He leathered the ball all the way down the street.
gloss: To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My father was very angry with me— -he took and leathered ( 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 he leathered me on Friday night, and Saturday; my father told me to strip myself, and he leathered 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.
My father was furious with me and reached for the strap. He brutally leathered me with it before sending me to bed for the night.
Anyway, bums were always on view in our family, getting leathered with a heavy belt.
Derived words: hell-for-leather
leatherback
leathercraft
leatherette
leatherhead
leatherjacket
leather jacket
leather-lunged
leathern
leatherwork
leathery
slap leather
spur-leather
stirrup leather
wash-leather
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