| spill tumble fall | a sudden drop from an upright position, he had a nasty spill on the ice |
| tumble | an acrobatic feat of rolling or turning end over end |
hassle
scuffle
tussle
dogfight rough-and-tumble | disorderly fighting |
| leather carp | scaleless domestic carp |
leatherette
imitation leather | fabric made to look like leather |
| leather strip | implement consisting of a strip of leather |
| piece of leather | a separate part consisting of leather |
saddle soap
leather soap | a mild soap for cleansing and conditioning leather |
tumble-dryer
tumble drier | a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air |
| leather flower Clematis versicolor | woody vine of the southern United States having purple or blue flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
leather flower vase-fine
vase vine
Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
witchgrass witch grass old witchgrass
old witch grass
tumble grass
Panicum capillare | North American grass with slender brushy panicles, often a weed on cultivated land |
leather fern leatherleaf fern
ten-day fern
Rumohra adiantiformis
Polystichum adiantiformis | widely distributed fern of tropical southern hemisphere having leathery pinnatifid fronds |
| golden fern leather fern Acrostichum aureum | stout tropical swamp fern (especially tropical America) having large fronds with golden yellow sporangia covering the undersides |
| leather | an animal skin made smooth and flexible by removing the hair and then tanning |
| ooze leather | a very soft leather made from the skins of calves and having a suede finish on the flesh side |
| Russia leather | a smooth leather tanned with willow, birch, or oak, and scented on the flesh side with birch oil |
white leather
whit leather | a leather that has been treated with alum and
or salt |
chamois
chamois leather
chammy
chammy leather
shammy
shammy leather | a soft suede leather formerly from the skin of the chamois antelope but now from sheepskin |
| wash leather | piece of chamois used for cleaning and polishing |
crushed leather
crush | leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated |
| glove leather | leather suitable for making gloves |
| patent leather | leather with a hard glossy surface |
| shoe leather | leather used to make shoes |
suede
suede leather | leather with a napped surface |
| tumble | do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully |
| tumble | suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat |
| tumble | put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying, Wash in warm water and tumble dry |
| tumble dry | dry by spinning with hot air inside a cylinder, These fabrics are delicate and cannot be tumbled dry |
| tumble | fall suddenly and sharply, Prices tumbled after the devaluation of the currency |
catch on
get wise
get onto
tumble
latch on
cotton on
twig
get it | understand, usually after some initial difficulty, She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on |
| leather | whip with a leather strap |
| tumble | throw together in a confused mass, They tumbled the teams with no apparent pattern |
| tumble | roll over and over, back and forth |
tumble
topple | fall down, as if collapsing, The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it |
crumble
crumple
tumble break down
collapse | fall apart, the building crumbled after the explosion, Negotiations broke down |
| whirl tumble whirl around | fly around, The clothes tumbled in the dryer, rising smoke whirled in the air |
| topple tumble tip | cause to topple or tumble by pushing |
bedraggled
broken-down
derelict
dilapidated
ramshackle
tatterdemalion tumble-down | in deplorable condition, a street of bedraggled tenements, a broken-down fence, a ramshackle old pier, a tumble-down shack |
rough-and-tumble
bare-knuckle
bare-knuckled | characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules, a rough-and-tumble fight, rough-and-tumble politics, undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism |
leather-leaved
leather-leafed | having leathery leaves |
| hell-for-leather | at breakneck speed, they were travelling hell-for-leather |