leather

1. (transitive) To cover with leather.Examples: "He rose and leathered his Colt as his father came to stand beside him."transitive

2. (ambitransitive) To form a leathery surface (on).Examples: "By the appearance of his deep suntan, which had leathered his skin, and the calluses that covered his hands, Sheriff Anderson figured the man to be one of the area ranchers."; "Some leather and droop like bat wings, others, as the poet Brenda Hillman writes, are 'hung in hashtags'."ambitransitive

3. (transitive) To strike forcefully.Examples: "He leathered the ball all the way down the street."transitive

4. (transitive) To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.Examples: "My father was very angry with me— -he took and leathered ( beat) me, because I ran away from my school ; for I did run away from my school ; he took and tied me up on a Sunday morning, leathered me a Friday night, and Saturday night : I was stripped naked when he leathered me on Friday night, and Saturday; my father told me to strip myself, and he leathered me, it was with a whip; but I do not know where he got the whip; he tied me with my arms extended so -- (spreading out her arms to their extremity, as if they were to be nailed upon a cross) -- My legs were tied too -- I was at the bottom of the dresser."; "My father was furious with me and reached for the strap. He brutally leathered me with it before sending me to bed for the night."; "Anyway, bums were always on view in our family, getting leathered with a heavy belt."transitive