Lexicographical Neighbors of Tannings
Literary usage of Tannings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1893)
"... M, K :) or enough for two tannings: (ТА:) or a handful thereof: (M :) pi. ...
material for tanning sufficient for one tanning, or for two tannings, &c. ..."
2. Meetings of the International Advisory Board: Opening of the Museum by by Pa Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Commercial Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.) (1897)
"The monographic collections consist principally of woods, tannings, ... The tannings,
dyeings, gums, resins, rubbers, etc., were in the hands of Mr. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... vegetable tannings. Part of the grain has been "buffed" off or removed by hand
with a special sharp blade. Hand boarded. Used for work shoes. Kin. ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Foes to the Dryad«, they remorseless fell 559 E.ich shrub of shark, ca"h tree of
spreading root, That woo tlie first i;lad tannings of the breeze. ..."
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