leather strip
- noun
- /ˈlɛðər strɪp/
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tira de cuero
- She wrapped the fragile package with a leather strip to keep it from falling apart.
Examples
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Nobody had to tell me that tall olive-eyed boy with black hair bound back with a leather strip and a rattlesnake skin around the brim of his hat was Nigel.
Fiction book (1992) -
The craftsman carefully cut a leather strip for use in her handmade bag.
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The arrowheads were made of flint and had been secured to the wooden arrows with thin leather strips.
Fiction book (2001) -
And then that leather strip is glued and in the olden days sewn to the leather glove on the side.
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Lizard's favorite toy was a Jacob's Ladder, a cunning arrangement of wooden blocks and leather strips about three feet long.
Fiction book (1998) -
These heads are held in place by an intricate lacing of leather strips in a mesh-like weave over the body of the drum.
Academic text (2006) -
She wore her long blond hair in braids, like several of the young Indian girls, and had them laced with leather strips that ended in beaded medallions.
Fiction book (1993) -
One had been knocked over onto its side; a welter of leather strips and a half-eaten wedge of bread lay in the sawdust beside it, as if someone had left in haste.
Fiction book (1993) -
But the others... they were clean-shaven, with short hair, and they were wearing either a voluminous sort of draped cape (which looked like a bedsheet to me), or else military uniforms made up of breastplates and little skirts of leather strips.
Fiction book (1998) -
He used a leather strip to tie the two pieces of wood together securely.
Synonyms
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3.0
A long narrow piece of material like wood or metal
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7.4
A narrow leather strip used for tying or fastening things
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'leather' (the material) + 'strip' (a long narrow piece), so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it denotes a long narrow piece of leather. This simple noun–noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows standard English compounding, making the expression immediately transparent.
Etymology
Leather strip is a simple name for a long, narrow piece of leather used to bind or fasten things. Imagine a craftsman cutting a thin band to 'tie' a package or to 'hold' a book spine together — that picture shows why the phrase means 'a long, narrow piece of leather used for binding, fastening, or crafting'.