Obs. [OE. lið(e)re:—prehistoric *liþrjôn-, f. *leþrom LEATHER.] A sling.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), F 385. Funda, liðre.
c. 900. trans. Bæda’s Hist., IV. xvii. [xiii.] (1890), 304. Swa micelre brædo swa mon mæʓe mid liðeran ʓeweorpan.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 8124. Me ne miȝte noȝt ise bote arwen & flon, & stones out of liþeren [v.r. leþeren].
