whang leather

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Noun

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whang leather (usually uncountable, plural whang leathers)

  1. A kind of tough leather.
    • 1916, Boys' Life, volume 5, number 12, page 22:
      This bag is made of whang leather, an oily sort of leather like raw-hide, of which whang-strings are made. The bag, as you may see, is decorated with Indian signs.
    • 2014, Nila Braden, Leather Hinges, page 113:
      He was as tough as whang leather and he was always ready to do anything that any horse near his size could do.