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spur-leather

noun

Etymology

From spur + leather.

  1. derived from *pel-✻
  2. derived from *ɸlitrom✻
  3. inherited from *leþrą✻
  4. inherited from *leþr✻
  5. inherited from leþer
  6. inherited from lether
  7. compounded as spur-leather — “spur + leather”

Definitions

  1. A leather strap for attaching a spur to a boot.

    • ’Sdeath, he mads me, I could eate my very spur-lethers, for anger!
    • I have a brother lives there, Sir, he is A Shoe-maker, and lately sent me post A patterne of the finest Spur-leather; I was so admir’d at Court.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA