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under-spur-leather

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Subordinate, underling.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • 1711, Jonathan Swift, Letter to Esther Johnson dated 9 October, 1711, in Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, London: C. Bathurst et al., 3rd edition, 1769, p. 61, I have instructed an under-spur-leather to write so, that it is taken for mine.
  • 1816, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf in Tales of my Landlord, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Chapter 12, p. 242, [...] I have opened house, not only for the gentry, but for the under-spur-leathers whom we must necessarily employ.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From under- + spur-leather.