What does leathern mean?
Leathern means (dated) Made of leather..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(dated) 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, […]
Use leathern when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Leathern means (dated) Made of leather..
Common synonyms include leather.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
For the doing of this matter, he ordered a great many leathern bottles and sacks to be got together; […]
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