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Leather vs Mooseskin - What's the difference?

leather | mooseskin |

As nouns the difference between leather and mooseskin

is that leather is a tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing while mooseskin is the skin of a moose, or leather made therefrom.

As an adjective leather

is made of leather.

As a verb leather

is to cover with leather.

leather

English

(wikipedia leather)

Noun

  • A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.
  • A piece of the above used for polishing.
  • (colloquial) A cricket ball or football.
  • (plural : leathers ) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.
  • (baseball) A good defensive play
    • Jones showed good leather to snare that liner.
  • (dated, humorous) The skin.

    • Hyponyms

    (types of leather) chagrin, cordovan, cordwain, galuchat, maroquin, morocco, morocco leather, shagreen, sharkskin

    Derived terms

    *stirrup leather : the strap which hangs the stirrup from the saddle.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Made of leather.
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  • Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cover with leather.
  • To strike forcefully.
    • He leathered the ball all the way down the street.

    Derived terms

    * hell-for-leather * leatherback * leatherette * leatherhead * leatherjacket * leather jacket * leather-lunged * leathern * leathery * wash-leather

    Anagrams

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    mooseskin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The skin of a moose, or leather made therefrom.
  • * 1959 , Yale University Publications in Anthropology , issue 55, page 71:
    • These lodge poles were steadied by being lashed to a couple of cross poles whose arch conformed to the inner curve of the lodge. The covering was preferably made of mooseskins' sewn together although caribouskins were used if the former were not available. Sometimes the upper part of the cover was of ' mooseskins while caribouskins were used for the sides.