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Definition of Layaways
1. layaway [n] - See also: layaway
Lexicographical Neighbors of Layaways
Literary usage of Layaways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Leather Manufacture in the United States: A Dissertation on the Methods by Jackson Smith Schultz, Theron Skeel (1876)
"Few men are old enough to remember when at Salem, Danvers and Cummington,
Mass., water was used instead of liquor in the layaways for sole leather tanning. ..."
2. One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ...: With an Appendix by Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, John C. Merriam, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Linus Pierpont Brockett (1870)
"... in this section stock should be kept about two weeks, then taken out and hung
over sticks with head and butt down in layaways, patented August 10th, ..."
3. Eighty Year's Progress of the United States by Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, Thomas Prentice Ketteil, Henry Youle Hind, Thomas C. Keefer (1864)
"... in this section stock should be kept about two weeks, then taken out and hung
over sticks with head and butt down in layaways, patented August 10th, ..."
4. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
"They remain there for from three to six days, after which the liquor is gradually
strengthened until the pack is taken to the layaways. ..."
5. One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States ... With an Appendix by Charles Louis Flint, Charles Francis McCay, John Clark Merriam, Thomas Prentice Kettell, Linus Pierpont Brockett (1871)
"... in this section stock should be kept about two weeks, then taken out and hung
over sticks with head and butt down in layaways, patented August 10th, ..."
6. Animal Proteins by Hugh Garner Bennett (1921)
"... or " layaways," in which they remain undisturbed for a decidedly longer time.
These pits contain the strongest liquors of the yard, and their principal ..."
7. Hides & Skins and the Manufacture of Leather: A Layman's View of the Industryby James Paul Warburg by James Paul Warburg (1921)
"... the conversion of hides into sole leather has been completed in the "layaways."
However, since sole leather is sold, not by superficial measurement, ..."
8. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1883)
"Layer or layaways. ... use four layaways. When packed the vats are filled with
leached tan liquor until the sides are covered. The liquor in the last layer ..."
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