leathern
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.29 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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, […]"
Etymology
From Middle English letheren, from Old English liþren, from Proto-Germanic *liþrīnaz (“of leather, leathern”), equivalent to leather + -en. Cognate with Scots letherin, lethrin, West Frisian learen, Dutch lederen, leren (“leathern”), German ledern (“leathern”).