leather
Meaning of leather
noun
- a material made from the skin of an animal by tanning or a similar process.
a leather jacket
- a piece of leather as a polishing cloth.
- short for stirrup leather.
- beat or thrash (someone).
he caught me and leathered me black and blue
Old English lether, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch leer and German Leder, from an Indo-European root shared by Irish leathar and Welsh lledr .
Information about leather
- The plural form of leather is: leathers.
- Languages in which leather is used:
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Hyphenation of leather
leather
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- leather is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
leather synonyms
Meaning the thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal:
Meaning a camouflaged shelter used to observe wildlife at close quarters:
Meaning strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip:
Meaning beat (someone) with a strip of leather:
Meaning fasten with a belt:
Meaning beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip:
Meaning beat (someone) with a whip or stick as a punishment:
Meaning beat (a person or animal) with a whip or similar instrument, especially as a punishment or to urge them on:
Meaning strike or beat with a whip or stick:
Meaning whip (someone) as a punishment:
Meaning beat (a person or animal) with a horsewhip:
Meaning beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment:
Meaning beat with a cane as a punishment:
Meaning hit forcibly and deliberately with one's hand or a weapon or other implement:
Meaning bring one's hand or a tool or weapon into contact with (someone or something) quickly and forcefully:
Meaning hit (someone or something) hard:
Meaning strike repeatedly with hard blows:
Meaning slap with one's open hand or a flat object, especially on the buttocks as a punishment:
Meaning strike or hit very hard:
Meaning strike forcefully with a sharp blow:
Meaning form or cause to form a lather:
Translation of leather
Anagrams of leather
Elreath, haltere, Tarheel, tarheel
Words that rhyme with leather
Bairnsfather, Cather, Fairweather, Father, Godfather, Heather, Mather, Prather, Rather, Starkweather, aqualeather, aweather, bather, befeather, belfather, bellweather, bequeather, blather, breakweather, breather, cofather, eldfather, father, feather, forefather, foregather, forgather, gather, gayfeather, godfather, grandfather, grather, gudefather, heather, housefather, inbreather, ingather, lather, loather, mather, misfather, mouthbreather, nather, outbreather, overlather, overleather, overweather, pinfeather, pregather, rather
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