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What does leather-hard mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word leather-hard? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (pottery) Describing the condition of a clay or clay body when it has been partially dried to the point where all shrinkage has been completed.
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When leather-hard the whole may be turned gently over and the tile allowed to fall on to a board placed in readiness.
The composite profile from the extrusion has an area of leather-hard rubber and an area of soft rubber.
When the egg is leather-hard, a tiny hole must be pierced through the bottom to prevent cracking upon firing.
Students use their previously prepared drawings to transfer their images to the leather-hard clay planter.
Set the leather-hard cylinder upon a new bat which is slightly damp and which runs true, on the wheel.
Relief carving was carried out when the vessels were leather-hard, just before firing.

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