leatherwood†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a small tree or shrub, Dirca palustris, having tough, pliant bark.

Quotations

1829

The timbers [of the bark canoe] . . . are sewed with stripes of the leatherwood-tree. . . .

1852

. . . Louis pointed to the strips of leather-wood. . . .