/ · 1894 Brewer’s · W · Whit-leather
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The skin of a horse cured and whitened for whip-thongs, hedging-gloves, and so on.
“Thy gerdill made of whitlether whange …
Is turned now to velvet.”
MS. Lansd., 241.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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