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- The term also apparently appears in an unpublished document of 1486–7 among the Cely Papers: see Eng.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.
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