Leather vs. Roan: What's the Difference?

The dressed or tanned hide of an animal.

Having a chestnut, bay, or sorrel coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray

Any of various articles or parts made of dressed or tanned hide, such as a boot or strap.

The characteristic coloring of a roan horse.

The flap of a dog's ear.

A roan horse or other animal.

To cover wholly or in part with the dressed or tanned hide of an animal.

A soft flexible sheepskin leather, often treated to resemble morocco and used in bookbinding.

(Informal) To beat with a strap made of hide.

Especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in

Made of, relating to, or resembling dressed or tanned animal hide.

Made of the leather called roan.

(Slang) Of or relating to the wearing of leather, or patronized by people who wear leather, especially as a sexual fetish

An animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.

A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.

The color of such an animal.

A piece of the above used for polishing.

A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.

(colloquial) A cricket ball or football.

Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; - said of a horse.

(plural: leathers) clothing made from the skin of animals, often worn by motorcycle riders.

Made of the leather called roan; as, roan binding.

(baseball) A good defensive play

The color of a roan horse; a roan color.

(boxing) A punch.

A roan horse.

The skin.

A kind of leather used for slippers, bookbinding, etc., made from sheepskin, tanned with sumac and colored to imitate ungrained morocco.

Made of leather.

A soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding

Referring to one who wears leather clothing (motorcycle jacket, chaps over 501 jeans, boots), especially as a sign of sadomasochistic homosexuality.

Horse having a roan coat

(transitive) To cover with leather.

(used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray;

(transitive) To strike forcefully.

(transitive) To spank or beat with a leather belt or strap.

The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.

The skin.

To beat, as with a thong of leather.

Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.

An animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning