pump leather
now chiefly historical
noun
Leather used to seal a pump; (as a count noun) a leather pump seal.
- The term also apparently appears in an unpublished document of 1486–7 among the Cely Papers: see Eng. Stud. (1961) 42 149..
Origin
Late 15th century.
- roughhead
- rough-headed poppy
- rough-hew
- rough-hewn
- rough horsetail
- rough hound
- roughhouse
- roughie
- rough-in
- roughing
- roughing pump
- roughings
- roughish
- roughit
- rough justice
- rough knot
- rough-leaved
- rough-legged
- rough-legged buzzard
- rough-legged hawk
- rough lemon
- rough lock
- roughlock
- rough log
- rough logbook