Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A leather flap attached to a stirrup-leather to protect the rider's leg from the sweat of the horse.
- noun A sweat-band.
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Examples
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Then the doctor brought to the bedside the hat, opened up the sweat-leather, and showed the dying man what it was that smelled so, and told him he was as well as any man in the city.
Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878
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