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Definition of Tannery
1. Noun. Workplace where skins and hides are tanned.
Definition of Tannery
1. n. A place where the work of tanning is carried on.
Definition of Tannery
1. Noun. A place where people tan hides to make leather. ¹
2. Noun. The business of a tanner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tannery
1. a place where hides are tanned [n -NERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tannery
Literary usage of Tannery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of by Daniel Haskel, John Calvin Smith (1843)
"$7500 ; 1 tannery, 1 grist m, 1 »aw m, 11 •ch. 555 scholars. Pop. 1379. CAMPVILLE,
po. ... 268 sp., 1 tannery, 4 grist гл., 8 saw m. Cap. in manufac. ..."
2. Sewage Disposal in the United States by George W. Rafter, Moses Nelson Baker (1893)
"The drainage from a tannery can be clarified chemically by the use of salts of iron,
... At Maxwell's tannery, in Winchester, a mechanical filter, Fig. ..."
3. Coniston by Winston Churchill (1906)
"It was known as the tannery house. His reasons for this step, when at length ...
The four years of her life in the tannery house which are now briefly to be ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of New South Wales by New South Wales Supreme Court (1866)
"By means of which several grievances the plaintiffs were put to great loss,
inconvenience, and delay, in carrying on the said tannery and business, ..."
5. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1902)
"tannery CONSTRUCTION. tannery construction that will best meet the ... In the
selection of a site for the location of a tannery may be found a good ..."
6. Modern American Tanning: A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Leather (1910)
"This particular manufacturer had made numerous applications of motor drives in
machine shops and worked out the tannery proposition along similar lines. ..."
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