ooze leather

English

Noun

ooze leather (countable and uncountable, plural ooze leathers)

1. Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; especially, such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (sometimes called velvet finish) applied to the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ooze leather”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)