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spur-leather en · NOUN

Etymology

From spur + leather.

Meanings

1. A leather strap for attaching a spur to a boot.
   • The wide spur leathers are to protect the boot from chafing on the stirrups. 1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 9, in Camp and Trail, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 154:
   • ’Sdeath, he mads me, I could eate my very spur-lethers, for anger! 1598, Ben Jonson, edited by Percy Simpson, Every Man in His Humour, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1919, act II, scene 1, page 26:
   • I have a brother lives there, Sir, he is A Shoe-maker, and lately sent me post A patterne of the finest Spur-leather; I was so admir’d at Court. 1643, William Davenant, The Unfortunate Lovers, London: Francis Coles, act III, scene 1, page 26:
   • 1862, The Groom, London: Houlston & Wright, The Industrial Library, Chapter 4, p. 44, […] the groom should see that […] the spur leathers [are] attached as soon as the spurs are cleaned. It is very annoying to have a general hunt for spur-leathers five minutes before mounting.

Forms

Deriveds

under-spur-leather