Definition of "sole-leather" []

• A strong, heavy leather especially prepared for boot- and shoe-soles.
• Same as sole-leather kelp.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I want porterhouse and a stomach that can bite sole-leather."
• "The postman, however, was a wiry fellow, and as tough as any native, and he rode a pony even tougher than himself, whose cradle was a marsh, and whose mother a mountain, his first breath a fog, and his weaning meat wire-grass, and his form a combination of sole-leather and corundum."
• "It happened, however, that a piece of thick sole-leather was in his shot-pouch at the time, which received the ball, and preserved his life, although the force of the blow felled him to the ground."