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tannery

[ tan-uh-ree ]

noun

, plural tan·ner·ies.
  1. a place where tanning tanning tan is carried on.


tannery

/ ˈtænərɪ /

noun

  1. a place or building where skins and hides are tanned


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tannery1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; tan 1, -ery

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Example Sentences

Though without large manufacturing industries, the town has joinery works, a brass and iron foundry, a tannery and brewery.

Thus, our tannery could now sustain a siege against those ill-tempered episcopals.

It was a long distance from the tannery of Colombaik to the market-place, the rendezvous of the bourgeois militia.

Then he got indicted with others fer robbin' a little tannery that was operatin' down the crick.

When they struck the old road above the tannery, Alfred gave the hounds a run, until Turner Simpson's house came into view.

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