2. Noun. A beating. ¹
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Definition of Leathering
1. leather [v] - See also: leather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leathering
Literary usage of Leathering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. More Mornings at Bow Street: A New Collection of Humorous and Entertaining by John Wight (1827)
"i Leathering versus LOVE. Bat let him bang his belly fall, I'll bear it all for
... or, in Mr. Theophilus Macdonald's own words, with leathering him. ..."
2. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1799)
"... by metallic Parts, -without packing or leathering. (WN) I To MR. NICHOLSON.
SIR, Richmond, OÔ. io. 1798. HAVE lately been informed, that a new method of ..."
3. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1900)
"The general idea of the under-world as the leathering place of all the dead, with
different sections in it for the evil and the good, »eems at the same time ..."
4. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature ...: With Numerous Notes from the by Oliver Goldsmith (1857)
"The feeding these worms, the | leathering, the winding, the twisting, and the
weaving their silk, is one of the principal manufactures of Europe ; and, ..."
5. Organ-stops and Their Artistic Registration: Names, Forms, Construction by George Ashdown Audsley (1921)
"We presume the question of durability does not trouble the organ- builder who
calculates that the leathering will, in all probability, outlast the rest of ..."
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