Neil Jackson

We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

English Actor

Ta-Nehisi Coates

My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.

American Journalist

David Hallberg

I've always questioned the way dancers, myself included, must do the same role year in and year out. It's important for me to be able to say to myself, 'O.K., I don't want to be a prince anymore. I want to put on a leather jockstrap and pose.

American Dancer

Marisa Miller

Leather is always sexy, and you have to wear leather when you ride a bike. It's more for protection, but it also gets you some style points, I think.

American Model

Kevin Hart

People don't want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

American Actor

Emo Philips

Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

American Comedian

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

English Musician

James May

Never has a material been as overrated as leather.

English Journalist

Suzi Quatro

When punk picked up black leather, I put it down.

American Musician

Joanna Garcia

American Actress

Remember, leather comes from animal hide, so it's often associated with luxury or quality.

Animal Origin

Leather is valued for its strength and longevity; items like shoes and bags are often leather-made.

Durability

Leather requires special care, such as conditioning to prevent cracking.

Care Instructions

Using 'leather' as a verb typically happens in sports, referring to strong strikes or throws.

Sporting Context

The verb form of leather is informal and best used in casual conversation or sport commentary.

Colloquial Term

Using 'leather' as a verb emphasizes the force and impact behind the action.

Intensity Expression

As an adjective, 'leather' describes a tough, sometimes wrinkled texture, just like actual leather.

Texture Indicator

Items described as 'leather' often carry a sense of style or sophistication.

Aesthetic Reference

 is to get the hide flexible soft after it dries mostly it's by scraping sometimes chewing on it because what you'll see is you'll actually see it turning the leather like right here if you just chew it a little bit you know the whole days people use to hide all the time saliva actually helps it a lot of people don't get to do

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 armed foot soldiers with swords and shields and some kind of armor. And there's artillery, and artillery are archers, but, more importantly, slingers. And a slinger is someone who has a leather pouch with two long cords attached to it, and they put a projectile, either a rock or a lead ball,

The unheard story of...

 with such force that I saw stars. Then they strapped my legs and arms to the metal bed with thick leather straps. A sound came out of my mouth that I'd never heard half groan, half scream, barely human and pure terror. Then the sound came again, forced from somewhere deep inside my belly

A tale of mental illness...

 they'd be in the room, they'd have a leather glove like a welder's glove on, and they'd eventually touch the snake. And when they touched the snake, everything was fine. They were cured. In fact, everything was better than fine. These people who had lifelong fears of snakes

How to build your...

 help make the skin supple but not too soft pigeon droppings have a burning quote when you put it on the skin it bites into it and softens it and then the skin becomes like a piece of cloth but to transform these raw hides into leather cloth requires mow scene to get

The Foul, Fascinating...

 years ago and and this bunch of leather jacket thugs came in and my slightly naive study team thought they were just clubbers and started waving syringes at them and trying to sign them up for HIV test and they turned tail and fled and I

Is invisibility the...

 A leather mask that clamps the mouth shut. A cannonball sewn into a soldier’s uniform. And a machine that delivers sudden electrical pulses. These old items were all intended treatments for a problem that has haunted humanity for

Why do some people snore...

 leather basil and the booze of extinction and nobody cares that peaked my interest len took the leatherback's future into his own hands he began patrolling the beach at night to protect the turtles a brave thing to do

Sir David Attenborough...

 is a very good job it's beautiful my son we need this it's a product to be proud of and few who end up wearing this leather on their feet forever know that it was crafted in one of the foul-smelling places on earth

Tanner PIPE Dangerous Jobs

 Herman's World of Sports. You guys remember that? Yeah, so I worked in a lady's shoe store. I worked in a leather goods store, and I also worked in a video store,

Leather

A material made from the skin of an animal.

To hit or beat strongly.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

Of or like leather in appearance or texture.

Animal Origin

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