To dress (tanned leather) by soaking, scraping, paring, beating, colouring, etc.

To scrape or pare (a skin, hide, etc.). spec. in Currying, To pare away the inequalities of and thin down (leather).

transitive. To prepare, treat, or curry (leather or an animal skin).

To gash or slash (a hide). Obsolete. rare.

In various spec. uses. transitive. Tanning. To cause (a hide) to thicken, in preparation for tanning. Obsolete.

Tanning. (See quot. 1688.)

To prepare leather in imitation of the chamois skin.

transitive. To prepare, dress (the skin of an animal).

In various spec. uses. In leather manufacture, to scrape a skin smooth and clean on the flesh side.

transitive. To remove (the wool) from the skin or hide of a dead sheep; to process (a sheepskin) in this way. Also intransitive.

transitive to cure (tobacco, leather, etc.) over a fire.

transitive. To bend or mould (leather) into a desired shape, esp. in making boot uppers or a saddle.

To treat (leather) with a graining-board.

transitive. To treat (leather, vinyl, etc.) with a patterned roller to produce a rough or indented surface, such as might be produced by the…

to board (a hide being used for leather) on the flesh side; see board, v. 7d.

See quots. Cf. sammy, v.

Leather Manufacturing. To beat (hides) in the stocks.

transitive. Glove-making. = feed, v. 6e. Obsolete.

transitive. To impart the velvety surface usual in buff leather for belts, etc.

transitive. In leather-making: to subject (a hide) to the action of a pinwheel (pinwheel, n. 1b). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To dry partially (leather); also, to dampen (leather that has been allowed to dry out) slightly. See sam, v.2

Tanning. = pinwheel, v.

transitive. In leather production: to wash or treat (a hide or skin) so as to remove or neutralize lime which has been applied to it. Cf. lime, v.1…