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wash leather

wash leather is the alternative form of wash-leather.

Meaning of wash-leather

Noun

wash-leather (countable and uncountable, plural wash-leathers)

  1. Leather that has been treated so as to be very absorbent. Usually made of sheepskin treated with oil, and used for dusting or as an absorbent lining in pockets, gloves, etc.
    • This combination shirt, of which the seat was made of wash-leather, protected the whole body down to the knees...1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, Allan Quatermain […], London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC
  2. Buff leather for regimental belts.

Forms of wash leather

pluralwash leathers

Questions about wash leather

What is wash leather the alternative form of?
Wash leather is the alternative form of wash-leather.

Words near wash leather in the dictionary

  1. wash bottles
  2. wash down
  3. wash house
  4. wash houses
  5. wash its face
  6. wash leather
  7. wash leathers
  8. wash line
  9. wash lines
  10. wash machine
  11. wash machines

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