sole-leathern.
1.
a. Leather of a thick or strong kind used or suitable for the soles of boots, shoes, etc.
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sole-leather1408
clout-leathera1500
bend-leather1581
footing1591
upper leather1629
capping-leathera1642
shoe leather1660
crop-sole1824
pannus corium1841
shoe-butt1858
rough stuff1860
zug1899
1408 Litt. Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 103 De faulx quyrs disloialment tannez ou correyez appelles Solelether et ouer~lether.
1408 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 54 iij. pecias de soollether.
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 30 I would..set on the best peece of Soule-leather I have.
1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 76 Of Substance not unlike to English Bend or Sole-Leather.
1777 in Philos. Trans. 1778 (Royal Soc.) (1779) 68 117 The tanners of this country cannot make soal-leather in less time.
1842 Penny Cycl. XXIV. 39/2 The preparation of the thick hides used for sole~leather.
1885 Harper's Mag. Jan. 278/1 Sole-leather needs a heavier tannage than upper-leather.
b. attributive, as sole-leather brake, sole-leather case, sole-leather roller, etc.
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a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 831 Sole Leather Roller, Stripper.
1892 W. W. Greener Breech-loader 181 Sole-leather cases—that is to say, cases in which best leather is sewn to pine frames,..do well to carry guns in.
1897 Outing 30 264/2 I pressed down hard on the sole-leather brake, stopping the reel entirely.
2. Botany. (See quot. 1866) Also attributive.
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1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1071/2 Sole-leather, or Sole-leather Kelp, a name given to the thicker Laminariæ, as L. digitata, bulbosa, &c., without particular reference to any individual species.
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