Usually means: Animal hide treated for durability.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word leather:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. leather: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. leather: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. leather: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. leather: Collins English Dictionary
  5. leather: Vocabulary.com
  6. Leather, leather: Wordnik
  7. leather: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. leather: Wiktionary
  9. leather: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. leather: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. leather: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Leather, leather: Dictionary.com
  13. leather: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. leather: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Leather (disambiguation), Leather: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Leather: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. leather: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. leather: Rhymezone
  19. leather: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. leather: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Leather: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. leather: Free Dictionary
  23. leather: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. leather: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. leather: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. leather: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. leather: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leather: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. leather: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. leather: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Leather: Easton Bible
  2. Leather: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. leather, leather, leather: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Leather: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See leathered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
noun:  A piece of the above used for polishing.
noun:  (colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
noun:  (plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
noun:  (baseball) A good defensive play
noun:  (boxing) A punch.
noun:  (dated, humorous) The skin.
adjective:  Made of leather.
adjective:  Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.
adjective:  Referring to an establishment of familial relations through agreed sexual or romantic deviance.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with leather.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To form a leathery surface (on).
verb:  (transitive) To strike forcefully.
verb:  (transitive) To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Clipping of fruit leather. [Puréed fruit that has been poured on a flat surface to form a layer, then dehydrated, yielding a dry, thin, pliable food product that resembles a sheet of leather.]

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