leather

noun

• 1a material made from the skin of an animal by tanning or a similar process: [as modifier]:a leather jacket

• 2a thing made of leather, in particular.
• a piece of leather as a polishing cloth.
• short for stirrup leather.
• (leathers) leather clothes, especially those worn by a motorcyclist.

verb

• beat or thrash (someone):he caught me and leathered me black and blue (as noun leathering)go, before you get a leathering
• strike or kick (a ball) very hard:neither woman is famed for her finesse—both prefer to leather the ball for all they are worth