Word Finder - leather

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A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.

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A piece of the above used for polishing.

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A cricket ball or football.

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(plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.

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A good defensive play

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A punch.

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The skin.

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To cover with leather.

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To strike forcefully.

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He leathered the ball all the way down the street.

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To beat with a leather belt or strap.

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Made of leather.

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Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.

She sank into the softness of her leather chair.

She sat in the living room as masculine as he, surrounded by wood, wool, and leather in dark colors.

The smell of alfalfa and leather soothed her nerves.

At first, the thick leather around her neck felt like a whip.

She gestured toward the leather sofa against the office wall.

Choking down fear, she climbed inside and sat down in the luxurious leather seat.

She relaxed in the luxury of leather seat covers and a smooth ride, content simply to watch him drive.

Black leather and detailing everywhere.

A tall, toned woman who looked like she did Pilates for a living stood in the hall in tight black leather pants and a tight pink T-shirt that drew attention to her large breasts.

She climbed into the leather seat and he shut the door after her.

As the teams came to a halt, the rasp of leather against sandy wheels assured her that the other wagons were following suit.

A blacksmith in Gravette was making the wheels, but the rest of the buggy was complete, right down to the leather seats.

Yes, it was a woman's shape, her body clad in dark breeches and boots, her sleeveless tunic held in place beneath a leather belt.

At the sound of steel on leather, Taran lowered himself into a crouch.

After a few more turns of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching the table, summoned his daughter.

The commo room where he sat was large with marble walls and leather chairs, a sign of the upper class's decadence.

The barn smelled like horses and leather.

Other industries of less importance are flour, fertilizers and tanned leather.

Thousands are taken for the leather trade.

The heavy leather rig appeared designed to span both waist and upper thigh.

The restaurant's interior is warm and inviting, with red leather booths set against cherry wood walls in the main dining room.

She lay on the sofa with her face to the wall, fingering the buttons of the leather cushion and seeing nothing but that cushion, and her confused thoughts were centered on one subject--the irrevocability of death and her own spiritual baseness, which she had not suspected, but which had shown itself during her father's illness.

A week before the French had had boot leather and linen issued to them, which they had given out to the prisoners to make up into boots and shirts for them.

This five-star restaurant's main dining room consists of beautiful chandeliers, soft leather furniture and plush dining chairs with cream walls.

The renovated bar is modern and bright, with mahogany paneling, tin ceilings, unpolished brass accents, drop pendant lights, black leather booths, and a center bar.

She sank into the luxurious seat, enjoying the smooth ride and the smell of leather.

You realize I can't get salt water out of this leather?

The White God, Darian, strode through his marble halls, the soft footfalls of his leather boots the only sound in the imperial corridor.

He breathed deeply of the early summer air and closed his eyes, enjoying the smell of the horse and sound of creaking leather.

The tanning, currying and finishing of leather, an industry largely dependent on the plentiful supply of oak and hemlock bark for tanning, is centralized in the northern and eastern parts of the state, near the forests.

Leather pinions must be protected from rats, which eat them freely.

Owing to its position the city enjoys a considerable transit trade with Portugal; its other industries include the manufacture of linen, woollen and leather goods, and of pottery.

The hair imported into Europe is chiefly used in the manufacture of small brushes used by painters, while the thick hide is formed into a very durable leather.

The industries are the manufacture of copper utensils and yellow leather, and the stamping of colours on white Manchester cotton.

There are manufactures of boots and shoes, straw and leather goods, carpets, &c. Westboro was the birthplace of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin.

It has some large breweries and manufactories of chemicals, and does a considerable trade in cereals, leather, timber and wine.

There are also tanneries, dye-works and manufactures of silk, linen and woollen fabrics, leather and starch.

The end of the first interval of this length (counting from the piece of bunting) is marked by a bit of leather, the second by a cord with two knots, the third by one with three knots, and so on; the middle of each of these lengths (half-knot) is also marked by a cord with one knot.

The industries consist of manufactures of cotton, linen, woollens and worsteds, and leather.

Next after cottons come woollens, silk, cloth, chemicals, machinery, paper, furniture, hats, cement, leather, glass and china and other products.

A considerable amount of standing room is then available, and those who have to occupy it have been nicknamed " straphangers," from the fact that they steady themselves against the motion of the train by the aid of leather straps fixed from the roof for that purpose.

It is a district of poor streets, inhabited by a labouring population employed in leather and other factories, and in the Surrey Commercial Docks and the wharves bordering the river.

The Herold Institute, a branch of the Borough Polytechnic, Southwark, is devoted to instruction in connexion with the leather trade.

From the dress of his followers in this expedition he was called "Murkertagh of the Leather Cloaks."

The principal industry is the tanning and leather trade.

Among the city's manufactures are oxide of tin and other chemicals, iron and steel, leather goods, automobiles and bicycles, electrical and telephone supplies, butted tubing, gas engines, screws and bolts, silk, lace and hosiery.

Other thriving local industries include the manufacture of oil, soap, flour, leather, alcohol and esparto grass rugs.

There is a large agricultural trade, and linen and leather manufactures and the quarries also employ a considerable number of persons.

Leather goods of all kinds are also manufactured, and from Kano come most of the "morocco leather" goods on the European markets.

The leading industries comprise manufactures of tweeds, hosiery, clogs, baskets and leather, besides the timber trade, nursery gardening and the making of machinery and iron implements.