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Tanning

noun

Process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light.

Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment. Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, lashing, whipping.

Making leather from rawhide.

Tan

verb

(past & past part. tanned; pres. part. tanning)

Treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather.

Get a tan, from wind or sun. Synonym: bronze.

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"Tanning" Quotes from Famous Books

... preparation of the gambir. I confess that I had never heard of the latter substance before, but I find that it is largely exported to Europe, where it is occasionally employed for giving weight to silks, and for tanning purposes. ...

— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey

... country are of more use than the species of this genus: many are grown for basket-makers in form of osiers, and other larger sorts serve for stakes, rails, hop-poles, and many other useful purposes. The bark of several species has been considered as useful for tanning leather. The charcoal of the Willow is also much ...

— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury

... said, looking at him; "but your hands and face are too white. But I was tanning my sails yesterday, and there is some of the stuff left in the boiler; if you rub your hands and face with that you ...

— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty

... passed through Milby on the coach at that time, you would have had no idea what important people lived there, and how very high a sense of rank was prevalent among them. It was a dingy-looking town, with a strong smell of tanning up one street and a great shaking of hand-looms up another; and even in that focus of aristocracy, Friar's Gate, the houses would not have seemed very imposing to the hasty and superficial glance of a passenger. You might still less have suspected ...

— Scenes of Clerical Life • George Eliot

... shields, parflesche bags, and saddle blankets. The husbands would tell the wives to take care of the heads. The wives took the brains out of the buffalo skull and mixed them with the largest part of the liver, and after mixing well, used the brains and liver in tanning the hides. Then the wife was told to take out the tripe and skin it, for they used the skin as a bucket with which to carry water when they got home. They had strips of rawhide about three feet long and a quarter of an inch ...

— The Vanishing Race • Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon

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