Also 9 youghten, jucten, juff, juft, youft. [a. Russ. юфть, юхть, whence also G. juften, juchten.] Russia leather (see RUSSIA 1).
1799. W. Tooke, View Russ. Emp., III. 514. The chief products of the tanneries of this country … are the yufts.
1802–3. trans. Pallas’s Trav. (1812), I. 45. Russian leather, or Youghten.
1853. Ure, Dict. Arts (ed. 4), II. 60. The Russians have long been possessed of a method of making a peculiar leather, called by them jucten, dyed red with the aromatic saunders wood.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Juff, Youft.
