hemlock leather

English

Noun

hemlock leather (countable and uncountable, plural hemlock leathers)

  1. Leather that has been tanned with hemlock.
    • 1877, United States. War Department, Annual Reports of the War Department, volume 1, page 256:
      The color of slaughter hemlock-leather is better than that from dry hides and it is more pliable than that made from dry or salted hides.
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