The action or process of preparing white leather: see taw, v.1 2.

Steeping in an infusion of bark; tanning.

The tawing of leather: see tew, v.1 1. Obsolete.

The process or trade of tanning; tannage.

The action of tan, v.; an instance of this.

The art or process of tanning; also concrete the produce of tanning. (With quot. 1891 at tan, v. 1c.)

instrumental or limitative, as in bark-bared, bark-feeder, bark-formed, bark-tanned, bark-tanning.

Tanning. (See quot. 1886.)

The action or process of soaking hides or cloth in a solution containing sumac; an instance of this.

the tanning of leather by treating it with an acid solution of potassium dichromate and afterwards with a reducing agent, so that chromic oxide…

Treatment in the stocks of a fulling mill or tannery.

As a modifier, with reference to the use of sumac in tanning or dyeing, as in sumac tanning, sumac tub, etc. Cf. sumac, v.