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Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.

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  1. n. Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.
  2. Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor. [Obs.] "His jambeux were of quyrboilly." Chaucer.
  3. Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape.Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly usedfor armor. [Obs.] "His jambeux were of quyrboilly." Chaucer.