Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The strongest kind of sole-leather for shoes. See
bend , 2.
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Examples
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Did you shriek when you saw her: I should have gone mad; but then you have such nerves! — real iron and bend-leather!
Villette 2003
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He heard the lap-stone fall thundering on the floor, and, like a spider from his cavern, Dooble Sanny appeared in the door, with the bend-leather in one hand, and the hammer in the other.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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He's as gleg as M'Keachen's elshin, that ran through sax plies o 'bend-leather into the king's heel.
The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836
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` ` I ken naething we wad hae gotten by the wight Wallace, 'said Mrs. Saddletree, ` ` unless, as I hae heard the auld folk tell, they fought in thae days wi bend-leather guns, and then it's a chance but what, if he had bought them, he might have forgot to pay for them.
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D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan Forbes, and that other
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D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801
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D'ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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She’ll be as teugh as bow-strings and bend-leather!”
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Wallace,” said Mrs. Saddletree, “unless, as I hae heard the auld folk tell, they fought in thae days wi’ bend-leather guns, and then it’s a chance but what, if he had bought them, he might have forgot to pay for them.
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D’ye think I was born to sit here brogging an elshin through bend-leather, when sic men as Duncan
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