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▪ I. † ˈtarˌleather1 Sc. Obs.
Also 6 -ledder, 7 -ladder.
[app. a. Gael. tarr-leathar belly-leather, f. tarr belly + leathar, ad. Eng. leather.]
‘A strip of raw sheep-skin (cut from the belly of the skin when it was newly flayed), salted and dried, and cut up into thongs for ties or mid-couples of flails’ (Suppl. to Jamieson, 1887).
1566Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1875) III. 226 The saidis flescheouris..cuttis ane tarledder of the skyn thairwith, diminisching thairby bayth the skynnis and the woll in lenth and breid. Ibid., Nor yit to diminische the samyn be cutting of ony sic pairt as thai call the tarledder. a1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 571 His shaven shoulders shawes the marks, no dout, Of teugh tarladders, tyres, and other tawes.
Hence † tarleathered (-letherit, etc.) ppl. a., Sc. Obs., applied to a sheep-skin from which a tarleather has been cut.
1570Rec. Convent. Roy. Burghs I. 21 [To] be presentitt..with the skyn and byrn vn tarletheritt, and plukkitt or powitt. 1585Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1882) IV. 407 That na merchants tak vpoun hand to by any skynns quhilk ar plukket and tarletherit as said is, vnder the pain foresaid.
▪ II. † tarleather2 Obs. rare—1.
A term of opprobrium applied to a woman.
1575Gamm. Gurton iii. iii. C iij b, Comst behynd me thou withered witch; & I get once on foote, Thouse pay for all, yu old tarlether. |