Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strap by which a spur is secured to the foot.
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Examples
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I have instructed an under spur-leather to write so, that it is taken for mine.
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I have got an under spur-leather to write an Examiner again, [9] and the Secretary and I will now and then send hints; but we would have it a little upon the Grub Street, to be a match for their writers.
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I have got an under spur-leather to write an Examiner again, [9] and the Secretary and I will now and then send hints; but we would have it a little upon the Grub Street, to be a match for their writers.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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"You say truly, sir," replied Wildrake, suppressing, with difficulty, some of his usual wild expletives; "formerly gentlemen were found in gentlemen's places, but now the world is so changed that you shall find the broidered belt has changed place with the under spur-leather."
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
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I have instructed an under spur-leather to write so, that it is taken for mine.
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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I have got an under spur-leather to write an Examiner again, [9] and the Secretary and I will now and then send hints; but we would have it a little upon the Grub Street, to be a match for their writers.
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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“You say truly, sir,” replied Wildrake, suppressing, with difficulty, some of his usual wild expletives; “formerly gentlemen were found in gentlemen’s places, but now the world is so changed that you shall find the broidered belt has changed place with the under spur-leather.”
Woodstock 1855
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