leathern

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8

Definition of leathern

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (dated, not-comparable)Made of leather.
    “For the doing of this matter, he ordered a great many leathern bottles and sacks to be got together; […]”
    “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 piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.”
    “[A] street door was torn open to admit four boys, with their leathern straps of books over their shoulders.”
    “Still more pleased was he when, inverting a leathern pouch over the end of the reed, and so filling it with the gas, he was able to send it soaring up into the air.”
    “Except for his leathern harness, covered thick with jewels and metal, […]”

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Etymology

From Middle English letheren, from Old English liþren, from Proto-Germanic *liþrīnaz (“of leather, leathern”), equivalent to leather + -en. Cognate with Scots letherin, lethrin, West Frisian learen, Dutch lederen, leren (“leathern”), German ledern (“leathern”).

Anagrams of leathern

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Words you can make from leathern

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