Leather

(noun.) an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning.

(verb.) whip with a leather strap.

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• These got fairly to work at the beginning of the century, and the uses of machinery spread to the treatment of leather. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• No, no; it must be something else if he were really vexed, Ladislaw is a sort of gypsy; he thinks nothing of leather and prunella. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He heard the noise of a carbine scabbard slapping loosely and the creak of leather. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The boy gathers up his change and has pulled the door open by a leather strap nailed to it for the purpose, when Venus cries out: 'Stop him! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He took a neat little leather case out of a drawer, and opening it he exhibited a number of shining instruments. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Leather Sewing Machines of Greenough and Corliss, 1842-43. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They were best adapted to work on leather and in embroidering. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The soles had shed themselves bit by bit, and the upper leathers had broken and burst until the very shape and form of shoes had departed from them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The more delicate leathers are treated in this manner, those especially which are used for wash-leathers, kid gloves, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This was tied across the saddle and at each end it was lashed to the stirrup leathers. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I glanced down at the new patent leathers which I was wearing. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Out of the vay, young leathers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The oars were long and there were no leathers to keep them from slipping out. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Ninety to one hundred days are required to tan bark leathers, while the chrome tannage is very quick and on the average requires only about three weeks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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