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Tanning   /tˈænɪŋ/   Listen
Tanning

noun
1.
Process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light.
2.
Beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment.  Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, lashing, whipping.
3.
Making leather from rawhide.


Tan

verb
(past & past part. tanned; pres. part. tanning)
1.
Treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather.
2.
Get a tan, from wind or sun.  Synonym: bronze.



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... he answered. "This week, when I went to Coniston, I had a strange experience. I left the brook at a tannery, and a most singular fellow was in the shed shovelling bark. I tried to get him to talk, and told him about some new tanning machinery I had seen. Suddenly he turned on me and asked me if I was 'callatin' to set up a mill.' He gave me a queer feeling. Do you have many such odd characters in Coniston, Miss Cynthia? ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... tune, but it must first be sung to them. At to-day's practice two mothers appeared upon the scene to see what we were doing. Some of the boys did not turn up, and I heard afterwards that two parents had given their sons a "tanning," as they expressed it, for not coming; and that this was so effectually administered that one of the truants hid under a cart ...
— Three Years in Tristan da Cunha • K. M. Barrow
... gave us an account of the whole process of tanning, and of the nature of milk, and the various operations upon it, as making whey, &c. His variety of information is surprizing; and it gives one much satisfaction to find such a man bestowing his attention on the useful arts of life. Ulinish was much ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell
... new fringed leather hunting-shirt, blue Saskatchewan cap trimmed with ribbons, and cross belt of scarlet cloth. His stock in trade was dog-shoes, made of caribou-skin by his wife, and while in process of tanning soaked in some kind of liquid that would prevent the canines from ...
— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine
... Europe.—The natural tanning materials and pathological or abnormal growth tanning materials described and classified, with ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 • Various


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