leatherEnglishOxford American Thesaurusleather noun his leather jacket | a volume bound in leather: skin, hide.verb he caught me and leathered me black and blue: beat, strap, belt, thrash, flog, whip, lash, scourge, horsewhip, birch, cane, strike, hit, clout, batter, spank; informal wallop, whack, tan someone's hide, give someone a (good) hiding, lather.