leathern

English

Etymology

From Middle English letheren, from Old English leþeren, leþern, leþren, liþeren, liþren, lidrin (“made of leather, leathern”), equivalent to leather +‎ -en. Cognate with Scots letherin, lethrin, West Frisian learen, Dutch lederen, leren (“leathern”), German ledern (“leathern”).

Adjective

leathern (not comparable)

  1. (dated) Made of leather.
    • 1806, Cornelii Neoptis Vitæ Excellentium Imperatorum:
      For the doing of this matter, he ordered a great many leathern bottles and sacks to be got together; […]
    • Charles Lamb, The Essays of Elia
      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 piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
    • 1919, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Warlord of Mars‎, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
      Except for his leathern harness, covered thick with jewels and metal […]
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