tanyard

[ tan-yahrd ]

noun
  1. an area of a tannery set aside for the operation of tanning vats.

Origin of tanyard

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How to use tanyard in a sentence

  • And a family, Zak, as wears out more boots than a tanyard a week could make good to 'em.

    Cripps, the Carrier | R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
  • One had to step carefully, and, though it did not smell of a tanyard, it did of several other things.

    The Ship Dwellers | Albert Bigelow Paine
  • Promise me that thou wilt not take any strong drink for a year, and I will employ thee myself in the tanyard at good wages.

    A Book of Quaker Saints | Lucy Violet Hodgkin
  • Hare filled the coffin with bark from the tanyard, and put a sheet over the bark, and it was buried in the West Churchyard.

    The History of Burke and Hare | George Mac Gregor
  • It was unbolted, as I had anticipated, and we were soon in the quiet and obscurity of the tanyard.

    The Yeoman Adventurer | George W. Gough