Word: leatherizing
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...spite of the bad weather a large and enthusiastic crowd turned out and for the first time this year organized cheering was heard. The field was in fair condition, with just enough mud and water to bring into use the leather suits...
...game is played with a leather-covered ball, nine inches in diameter and weighing about two pounds. On the back line of the court, on each side, six bowling-pins are placed as goalposts, two in the middle and two a yard from each end. A line is marked in the centre of the court and a string is stretched over the back line on each side, seven feet above the ground. The game is ordinarily played with five men on a side. Points are scored as follows: Putting the ball between two pairs of the opponents' goal pins counts...
...that the mass of the population of Saxon England before the Norman conquest got rid of their smoke by the less ingenious outlet of door and window. In cordwainer (still the legal designation of shoemaker) we are pointed to the fact that the people of Cordova made the best leather-a fame to which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally...
LOST.- Taken by mistake or design, an alligator leather grip from Foster's. Information concerning same wanted at Foster...
Pennsylvania opened up with a wedge and then tried her flying interference, but it was of no avail and Brooke had to kick. Brewer returned the compliment but Brooke sent the leather back again...