DCHP-1 Online

leatherwood † 

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

  See also: bois de pelon  moosewood (def. 2)  

  • 1829  The timbers [of the bark canoe] . . . are sewed with stripes of the leatherwood-tree. . . .
  • 1852  (1881)  . . . Louis pointed to the strips of leather-wood. . . .