Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Leather dressed with alum; white leather. See
leather . - noun The nuchal ligament of grazing animals, as the ox, supporting the head: same as
paxwax . See cut underligamentum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.
- noun (Anat.) The paxwax. See
Paxwax .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A soft, pale
leather prepared by treatment withalum andsalt (tawing )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a leather that has been treated with alum and/or salt
Etymologies
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Examples
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Muscles rippled like whitleather along the brown backs of the Indians.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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Muscles rippled like whitleather along the brown backs of the Indians.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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Muscles rippled like whitleather along the brown backs of the Indians.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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Year's dinner; he supposed he was getting a young and tender turkey, but we find it to be an ancient Shanghai rooster, with flesh as tough as whitleather.
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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One instance each of the following words was retained: barefooted/bare-footed whitleather/whit-leather
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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The rye dumplin's, some on 'um, was as big as corn-dodgers, and some on' um, which the seasonin 'hadn't toch, was tough as whitleather, and you mout a knocked a bull down with' um.
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