Meaning of under-spur-leather | Babel Free

Definitions

Subordinate, underling.

obsolete

Examples

“[…] if the Officers are allow’d to impose⟳ upon them, Under-Spur-leathers are always the Tyrants; a Government regulated by Laws, and Govern’d according to such Regulations, never willingly put⟳ it into the power of any Inferiour Officer to Tyrannize over his fellow Subjects.”

“1711, Jonathan Swift, Letter to Esther Johnson dated 9 October, 1711, in Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, London: C. Bathurst et al., 3rd edition, 1769, p. 61, I have⟳ instructed an under-spur-leather to write⟳ so, that it is taken for mine.”

“1816, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf in Tales of my Landlord, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 1, Chapter 12, p. 242, […] I have⟳ opened house, not only for the gentry, but for the under-spur-leathers whom we must necessarily employ⟳.”

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