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Etymology
Old English leþer

Pronunciation
audio|en-us-leather.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�ð�(r)|-�ð�(r)

Noun
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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.

Translations
trans-top|material produced by tanning animal skin
Albanian: lëkurë
Bosnian: koža#Bosnian|koža f
Catalan: cuir m
Chinese: �� (pí gé)
Croatian: koža f
Czech: kůže f
Danish: læder n
Dutch: leer n, leder (formal) n
Esperanto: ledo
Finnish: nahka (1, 4), säämiskä (2)
French: cuir m
German: Leder n
Guaraní: pire
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Hungarian: b�r
Italian: cuoio m
Korean: �죽 (gajug, -juk)
Lithuanian: oda f
Malayalam: ത�ല�� (thOl)
Portuguese: couro m
Russian: кожа (kóža) f
Serbian:
:Latin: koža#Serbian|koža f
:Cyrillic: кожа#Serbian|кожа f
Slovene: usnje n
Spanish: cuero m
Swedish: läder n (1)
Turkish: deri
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See also
cordovan
cordwain
morocco
shagreen

Adjective
en-adj|-|-

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
leathern, leathery

Translations
trans-top|made of leather
Bosnian: kožni#Bosnian|kožni m
Dutch: leren
Finnish: nahka- (1), nahkainen (1)
trans-mid
Russian: кожан�й (kóžanyj)
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: кожни#Serbian|кожни m
:Latin: kožni#Serbian|kožni m
Slovene: usnjen m, usnjena f, usnjeno n
Turkish: deri

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Verb
en-verb|leathers|leathering|leathered

1. rfv-sense To polish or wipe with a leather.
2. rfv-sense To beat or thrash with a leather.

Derived terms
hell-for-leather
leatherback
leatherette
leatherhead
leatherjacket
leather jacket<!--a jacket made of leather-->
leathern
wash-leather

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