leather

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

To lose leather; to be galled with riding on horseback, or, as the Scotch express it, to be saddle sick. To leather also meant to beat, perhaps originally with a strap: I'll leather you to your heart's content. Leather- headed; stupid. Leathern conveniency; term used by quakers for a stage-coach.

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