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Whitleather

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Whitleather
    Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.
  2. Whitleather
    (Anat) The paxwax. See Paxwax.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) whitleather
    Leather dressed with alum; white leather. See leather.
  2. (n) whitleather
    The nuchal ligament of grazing animals, as the ox, supporting the head: same as paxwax. See cut under ligamentum.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Whitleather
    hwit′leth-ėr leather dressed with alum, white leather: the paxwax or nuchal ligament of the ox.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary White, + leather,