leatherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛðə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛðɚ/
• (dialectal, 廃れた用法) IPA^(key): /ˈlʌðəɹ/^[1]
• 韻: -ɛðə(ɹ)

名詞

leather (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 leathers)

1. A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
2. A piece of the above used for polishing.
3. (colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
   • 1918, M. M. Guy, Joe Doughty, page 157:

     The goalee made a frantic grab as the leather spun clean past him, but he was just a second too late, and Joe had scored for Redcliff.

4. (複数形: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
5. (baseball) A good defensive play

   Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.

6. (boxing) A punch.
7. (dated, humorous) The skin.
8. Clipping of fruit leather.

下位語

(types of leather): chagrin, cordovan, cordwain, galuchat, maroquin, morocco, morocco leather, shagreen, sharkskin, taw

派生語

形容詞

leather (not comparable)

1. Made of leather.

   Synonym: leathern

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. […] A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

2. Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.

動詞

leather (三人称単数 現在形 leathers, 現在分詞 leathering, 過去形および過去分詞形 leathered)

1. (transitive) To cover with leather.
3. (transitive) To strike forcefully.

   He leathered the ball all the way down the street.

4. (transitive) To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.
   • 1806, Andrew Kippis, The New Annual Register:

     My father was very angry with me— -he took and leathered ( beat) me, because I ran away from my school ; for I did run away from my school ; he took and tied me up on a Sunday morning, leathered me a Friday night, and Saturday night : I was stripped naked when he leathered me on Friday night, and Saturday; my father told me to strip myself, and he leathered me, it was with a whip; but I do not know where he got the whip; he tied me with my arms extended so -- (spreading out her arms to their extremity, as if they were to be nailed upon a cross) -- My legs were tied too -- I was at the bottom of the dresser.

   • 2005, H. Salisbury, Betrayed, →ISBN, page 4:

     My father was furious with me and reached for the strap. He brutally leathered me with it before sending me to bed for the night.

   • 2011, Agnes Owens, Agnes Owens: The Complete Novellas, →ISBN:

     Anyway, bums were always on view in our family, getting leathered with a heavy belt.

派生語

参照

アナグラム

• Tar Heel, Tarheel, haltere, lethera