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Leatherhead

Leath′er-headˊ

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Noun.
(Zool.)
The friar bird.

Definition 2024

Leatherhead

Leatherhead

See also: leatherhead

English

Proper noun

Leatherhead

  1. A town in Surrey, England.

leatherhead

leatherhead

See also: Leatherhead

English

Noun

leatherhead ‎(plural leatherheads)

  1. The friarbird.
    • 1855, William Howitt, Land, labor and gold: or, Two years in Victoria (volume 2, page 38)
      The piping-crows, the laughing-jackasses, the odd leatherheads, and the coach-wheel birds, all gave us their old music, and brought back pleasant memories of travel.

Etymology

The Leatherhead Museum has traced the history of the town from its beginnings in about AD 880 when it was known as Leodridan (dative case of a compound of leode and rida), meaning "place where people [can] ride [across the river]" in Anglo-Saxon). Later in the Domesday Book it was called Leret. Later forms recorded are Lereda, Ledreda, Leddrede (all second half of 12th century).

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