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English
Noun
lether (countable and uncountable, plural lethers)
- Obsolete spelling of leather.
Cornish
(Revived Middle Cornish) lyther
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin littera.
Pronunciation
Noun
lether m (plural letherow)
- letter, epistle
Middle English
- lethere, lethir, lethyr, leþer, leþyr, leþir, leddyr, ledder, leddur, leddir, ledyr, leder
Etymology
Inherited from Old English leþer, from Proto-West Germanic *leþr, from Proto-Germanic *leþrą, from Proto-Indo-European *letróm.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlɛðər/, /ˈlɛːðər/, /ˈlɛdər/
Noun
lether (plural letheris)
- leather (tanned animal hides)
- A leather good or item.
- An unworked or untanned hide.
- (rare, Late Middle English) An ocular tumor.
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Adjective
lether
- leather (manufactured out of leather)
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