Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to leather
Participle: leathered
Gerund: leathering
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | leather |
| you | leather |
| he;she;it | leathers |
| we | leather |
| you | leather |
| they | leather |
Perfect
| I | have leathered |
| you | have leathered |
| he;she;it | has leathered |
| we | have leathered |
| you | have leathered |
| they | have leathered |
Past
| I | leathered |
| you | leathered |
| he;she;it | leathered |
| we | leathered |
| you | leathered |
| they | leathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had leathered |
| you | had leathered |
| he;she;it | had leathered |
| we | had leathered |
| you | had leathered |
| they | had leathered |
Future
| I | will leather |
| you | will leather |
| he;she;it | will leather |
| we | will leather |
| you | will leather |
| they | will leather |
Future Perfect
| I | will have leathered |
| you | will have leathered |
| he;she;it | will have leathered |
| we | will have leathered |
| you | will have leathered |
| they | will have leathered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | leather |
| you | leather |
| he;she;it | leather |
| we | leather |
| you | leather |
| they | leather |
Perfect
| I | have leathered |
| you | have leathered |
| he;she;it | have leathered |
| we | have leathered |
| you | have leathered |
| they | have leathered |
Imperfect
| I | leathered |
| you | leathered |
| he;she;it | leathered |
| we | leathered |
| you | leathered |
| they | leathered |
Pluperfect
| I | had leathered |
| you | had leathered |
| he;she;it | had leathered |
| we | had leathered |
| you | had leathered |
| they | had leathered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would leather |
| you | would leather |
| he;she;it | would leather |
| we | would leather |
| you | would leather |
| they | would leather |
Perfect
| I | would have leathered |
| you | would have leathered |
| he;she;it | would have leathered |
| we | would have leathered |
| you | would have leathered |
| they | would have leathered |
Imperative
| you | leather |
| we | Let's leather |
| you | leather |
Verbs conjugated like 'leather'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'leather'
feather,
lather,
weather,
begather,
blather,
blether,
deathen,
ether,
father,
gather,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Celtic *letrosbor.
3. Proto-Germanic *leþrą
4. Proto-West Germanic *leþr
5. Old English leþer
6. Middle English lether
7. English leather
8. From Middle English lether, from Old English leþer (“leather”), from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą (“leather”), possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸlitrom, *letros, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥tro- (“skin, hide”).
9. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leder (“leather”), West Frisian leare (“leather”), Low German Leder (“leather”), Dutch leder, leer (“leather”), German Leder (“leather”), Danish læder (“leather”), Swedish läder (“leather”), Icelandic leður (“leather”). Compare also English fell (“skin, hide, pelt”), film. See: English '
fell'.
Sample Sentences
-
He rose and leathered his Colt as his father came to stand beside him. [2015, Rain Trueax, Lands of Fire:]
-
By the appearance of his deep suntan, which had leathered his skin, and the calluses that covered his hands, Sheriff Anderson figured the man to be one of the area ranchers. [2003, Bonita Wagner, Satan's Choice, page 66:]
-
Some leather and droop like bat wings, others, as the poet Brenda Hillman writes, are 'hung in hashtags'. [2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 83:]
-
He leathered the ball all the way down the street.
-
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. [1806, Andrew Kippis, The New Annual Register:]
-
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. [2005, H. Salisbury, Betrayed, →ISBN, page 4:]
-
Anyway, bums were always on view in our family, getting leathered with a heavy belt. [2011, Agnes Owens, Agnes Owens: The Complete Novellas, →ISBN:]