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Definition of Tawing
1. taw [v] - See also: taw
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tawing
Literary usage of Tawing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1902)
"tawing, OR MINERAL. TANNING 83. ... As an illustration of tawing leather, the
process for turning lambskins and ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"In tawing, the first process is careful washing, next dressing them with lime,
... The method of tawing lamb-skins will give a fair idea of the process, ..."
3. A Handbook of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1872)
"Knapp's process also is not really a tanning but a tawing operation, by which
the skins are alternately immersed in a solution containing 3 to 5 per cent of ..."
4. Leather Manufacture: A Practical Handbook of Tanning, Currying, and Chrome by Alexander Watt (1906)
"Continental Method of preparing Glove Leather.—Calf Kid for Uppers.—White Sheep
Leather.—Splitting Sheep Skins. tawing, as distinguished from. Tanning. ..."
5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1867)
"tawing.—The thin and delicate skins which are employed in the manufacture ...
In this condition it is ready for the operation of tawing, or passing through ..."
6. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Charles D. Demond (1905)
"Tanning with metallic salts or tawing is employed for small skins and light leathers,
... Chrome tannage, or tawing with chromium salts, has been chiefly ..."
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