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under-spur-leathers

under-spur-leathers is the plural of under-spur-leather.

Meaning of under-spur-leather

Noun

under-spur-leather (plural under-spur-leathers)

  1. (obsolete) Subordinate, underling.
    • […] 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.1704, Daniel Defoe, An Essay on the Regulation of the Press, London, page 5

Questions about under-spur-leathers

What is under-spur-leathers the plural of?
Under-spur-leathers is the plural of under-spur-leather.

Words near under-spur-leathers in the dictionary

  1. under-ripe
  2. under-sergeant
  3. under-sergeants
  4. under-served
  5. under-spur-leather
  6. under-spur-leathers
  7. under-stander
  8. under-standers
  9. under-steward
  10. under-stewards
  11. under-tenant

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