Look up: tanning

1. Tanning
   A process in which the raw pelts are skinned, fleshed, soaked, and washed in special solutions to prepare them for use in garments
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2. tanning
   [n] - process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light 2. [n] - making leather from rawhide
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3. tanning
   a tanning process that results in the formation of a leather on the skin of furs (1) Category: Various industries and crafts
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4. Tanning
   Tan'ning noun The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan , transitive verb , 1.
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5. tanning
   The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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6. tanning
   noun making leather from rawhide
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7. tanning
   noun process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
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8. Tanning
   • (n.) The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tan
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9. tanning
   chemical treatment of raw animal hide or skin to convert it into leather. A tanning agent displaces water from the interstices between the protein ... [6 related articles]
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10. Tanning
    Tanning is the process of treating skins of animals to produce leather, which is more durable and less susceptible to decomposition. Traditionally, tanning used tannin, an acidic chemical compound from which the tanning process draws its name (tannin is in turn named for an old German word for oak ...
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11. tanning
    tanning, process by which skins and hides are converted into leather. Vegetable tanning, a method requiring more than a month even with modern machinery and tanning liquors, employs tannin; its use is shown in Egyptian tomb paintings dating from 3000 B.C. Mineral tanning includes tawing, or alum tan...
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12. 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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