The Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue dates from 1811 and this is probably the only full, uncensored and searchable version of this dictionary on the internet. All the original crudities have been restored and it offers an interesting perspective on Common English from the time of the Regency and Jane Austen.

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Entries releated to LEATHER

 

BLACK JACK		A jug to drink out of, made of jacked leather.
BOOBY HUTCH		A one-horse chaise, noddy, buggy, or leathern bottle.
CONVENIENCY		A necessary. A leathern conveniency, a coach.
GAMBADOES		Leathern cases of stiff leather, used in Devonshire instead of boots; they are fastened to the saddle, and admit the leg, shoe and all: the name was at first jocularly given.
GOLOSHES		Goliath's shoes. Large leathern clogs, worn by invalids over their ordinary shoes.
JINGLE BOXES		Leathern jacks tipped with silver, and hung with bells, formerly in use among fuddle caps.
LEATHER		To lose leather; to be galled with riding on horseback, or, as the Scotch express it, to be saddle sick. To leather also meant to beat, perhaps originally with a strap: I'll leather you to your heart's content. Leather-headed; stupid. Leathern conveniency; term used by quakers for a stage-coach.
RUMFORD		To ride to Rumford to have one's backside new bottomed: i.e. to have a pair of new leather breeches. Rumford was formerly a famous place for leather breeches. A like saying is current in Norfolk and Suffolk, of Bungay, and for the same reason. - Rumford lion; a calf. See ESSEX LION.
SADDLE		To saddle the spit; to give a dinner or supper. To saddle one's nose; to wear spectacles. To saddle a place or pension; to oblige the holder to pay a certain portion of his income to some one nominated by the donor. Saddle sick: galled with riding, having lost leather.
WHITE FEATHER		He has a white feather; he is a coward; an allusion to a game cock, where having a white leather is a proof he is not of the true game breed.