vbl. sb. [f. LEATHER v. + -ING1.]

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  1.  The action of covering, fitting or furnishing with leather.

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1517.  Acc., in Archæologia, XLVII. 310. For … naylyng, letheryng, bokelyng of mlmlxlvij complete harnes.

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1794.  Rigging & Seamanship, I. 27. The … hole is … larger…, to allow for leathering.

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1869.  Eng. Mech., 26 Nov., 257/3. We next come to the very important part of the work—‘leathering.’

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  b.  concr. A covering or strip of leather.

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1852.  Seidel, Organ, 38. The other ends of the bellows … called the hinges, are provided with a double or triple leathering.

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1861.  Jrnl. Soc. Arts, IX. 746/1. The leathering on the oar, to prevent chafe.

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  2.  colloq. A flogging, beating.

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1791.  A. Wilson, Poems & Lit. Prose (1876), II. 33. Ye deserve a leathering.

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1894.  Baring-Gould, Kitty Alone, II. 169. ‘Won’t I only give that cursed beast a leathering.’

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  3.  Comb. as leathering-bed (see quot.).

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1839.  Murchison, Silur. Syst., I. ii. 18. ‘Leathering bed.’ Name given to a bed of very hard micaceous marlstone found in the Lower Lias.

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