under-spur-leather
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] if the Officers are allow’d to impose upon them, Under-Spur-leathers are always the Tyrants; a Government regulated by Laws, and Govern’d according to such Regulations, never willingly put it into the power of any Inferiour Officer to Tyrannize over his fellow Subjects."
- "1711, Jonathan Swift, Letter to Esther Johnson dated 9 October, 1711, in Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, London: C. Bathurst et al., 3rd edition, 1769, p. 61, I have instructed an under-spur-leather to write so, that it is taken for mine."
- "1816, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf in Tales of my Landlord, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Chapter 12, p. 242, […] I have opened house, not only for the gentry, but for the under-spur-leathers whom we must necessarily employ."
Etymology
From under- + spur-leather.