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tanning

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tanning

Treating animal skins to preserve them and make them into leather. In vegetable tanning, the prepared skins are soaked in tannic acid. Chrome tanning, which is much quicker, uses solutions of chromium salts.
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To be sure, it might be nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot sun's tanning a white man into a purplish yellow one.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
But he found the hide had dried as stiff as a board, and as he knew naught of tanning, he was forced to abandon his cherished plan.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
When the Lord removes my father, I shall have his tanning yard and his leather factory.
A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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