Tanning is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TANNING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of the sun) cause (a pale-skinned person) to become brown or browner
• (of a pale-skinned person) become brown or browner after exposure to the sun
• convert (animal skin) into leather by soaking in a liquid containing tannic acid, or by the use of other chemicals
• beat (someone) repeatedly as a punishment
RESIDUAL:
• tangent.
NOUN:
• the process of converting hides into leather
• a yellowish-brown colour
• a golden-brown shade of skin developed by pale-skinned people after exposure to the sun
• bark of oak or other trees, bruised and used as a source of tannin for converting hides into leather.
• The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.
• process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
• beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
• making leather from rawhide
• tan from which the tannin has been extracted, used for covering the ground for walking, riding, children's play, etc., and in gardening.
ADJECTIVE:
• (of a pale-skinned person) having golden-brown skin after exposure to the sun
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to convert hide into leather by soaking in chemicals

Words related to TANNING

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Words that contain TANNING

tannings9 suntanning11 suntannings12

How to use TANNING in a sentence

• Their dress was chiefly made out of deer and elk hide, and relics still in existence show that they had good ideas of agriculture, tanning, pottery, and even carving.
• For many years, a material important for tanning leather has been extracted in large amounts from the bark of hemlock trees.
• As soon as he was released, he went immediately to work at his trade of tanning leather, and conducted himself in the most exemplary manner.
• They had so little fear of pursuit now that they cut up the body, saving the skin whole for tanning, and hung the pieces in the trees, there to freeze.
• He tried farming and tanning in Pennsylvania, and tanning and speculating in real estate in Ohio.
• Some are used as cabinet woods, and some for tanning, for oils, dyes, gums, or fibres.
• Wind and sun were tanning his skin to the hue of health.
• Its bark is used in the manufacture of tanning extracts and the nuts are sold in cities in large quantities.
• After tanning, white Russia leather is coated with a mixture of tar and seal oil.
• He leaned idly against the side of the wigwam, watching two squaws not far away who were tanning a deerskin and cutting it in strips for thread.
• They make deer-skin boots by scraping caribou skin, and tanning it in a decoction of spruce bark.
• The light, falling directly upon the package he carried, showed it to be a bundle of hides all ready for tanning.
• Its strong decoction has been found very useful in Germany for tanning leather.
• The root is employed both for tanning leather, and for dyeing it by the thickened red juice.
• Nan had paled under the pretty tanning of her rounded cheeks.
• The tanning yard was not far from the house Doctor Miller.
• Randall as a child delighted in stopping around the tanning yard and watching the men salt the hide.
• Through his attention to the tanning operations he learned everything about tanning except one solution that he could not discover.
• No one knew anything about composition leather for making shoes so the tanning of hides was a lucrative business.
• Tanning and curing pig and cow hides was done, but Claude never saw the process performed during slavery.
• The bark of several species has been considered as useful for tanning leather.
• Fetching wood, grinding corn, tanning the hides, and in the main the preparation of clothing, follow rather necessarily from her relation to the raw products.
• Let us now take a brief review of the sources from whence tanning materials may be obtained, which will also enable us to form a fair estimate of the prospect of future supplies.
• The bark of the hemlock tree is extensively employed for tanning in New Brunswick.
• Purkis found that one pound was equivalent to seven or eight of oak bark for tanning leather.
• The native tanning barks of New Zealand are various and easily obtained.
• Many of the trees of this tribe, which are all natives of the tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and America, are used for tanning, and some for dyeing.
• In Russia, they say, it is used in tanning, and gives its subtle, sacerdotal fragrance to Russia leather.
• The bark of the red mangrove is here used for tanning of leather, and they have great tan-pits for it.
• The prominent industries of the city and its vicinity are dyeing, tanning, and metal working.
• The tanning interests of the United States have pursued this course in their limited field.

Similar words containing TANN without suffix ing

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