whit-leather

“One instance each of the following words was retained: barefooted/bare-footed whitleather/whit-leather”

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer

“The only imitation of a carriage among these people was a board, made somewhat hollow in the middle, to one end of which a pole was tied, by a strap of whit-leather: This wretched sledge approached about as treat to an English cart, as an Indian canoe to a ship's long-boat; and even this would probably never have been thought of, if the English had not introduced wine vessels, which are too big to be carried by hand, and which, therefore, were dragged about the town upon these machines.”

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

“strawberries in him," but not enough to pay one for chewing the whit-leather crust.”

The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer