Citations:leatherhead

Noun: a bird

 * 1857, Daniel Bunce and Ludwig Leichhardt, Australasiatic Reminiscences of Twenty Three-years' Wanderings in Tasmania and the Australias, J. T. Hendry and W.Fairfax and Co.(publishers), page 62
 * The wattle bird has been not inaptly termed the “what’s-o’clock?”—the leather-head the “stop-where-you-are.”
 * 1906, Charles Reade, It is Never Too Late to Mend, L. C. Page (publisher), page 542
 * “Did you hear that bird, George? They call him a leather-head. What is he singing?”

Noun: a person

 * 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle The White Company
 * “And if you could drink yourself in, old leather-head, you had been first baren of the realm,” cried the aggrieved Humphrey.
 * 1905, The Lawyers Reports Annotated, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, page 860
 * Hoping you will not find it too much to get the acc’t so a leather-head can understand it.