Meanings
leatherhead1
plural leatherheads
- The friarbird.
The piping-crows, the laughing-jackasses, the odd leatherheads, and the coach-wheel birds, all gave us their old music, and brought back pleasant memories of travel.
1855, William Howitt, Land, labor and gold: or, Two years in Victoria, volume 2, page 38 - slangfirefightingA firefighter.
Leatherhead2
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Leatherhead · proper noun
The Leatherhead Museum has traced the history of the town from its beginnings in about AD 880 when it was known as Leodridan (dative case of a compound of leode and rida), meaning "place where people [can] ride [across the river]" in Anglo-Saxon). Later in the Domesday Book it was called Leret. Later forms recorded are Lereda, Ledreda, Leddrede (all second half of 12th century).
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