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Definition of Tranks
1. trank [n] - See also: trank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tranks
Literary usage of Tranks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gloves and the Glove Trade by B. Eldred Ellis (1921)
"All these are stamped out from the " tranks " of leather or from odd pieces of
the skins left over after the " tranks " have been cut. ..."
2. The Leather Glove Industry in the United States by Daniel Walter Redmond (1913)
"tranks accurately measured crossways, or lengthways if faults should make ...
tranks measured and spudded. Thumbs not measured but so worked out that they ..."
3. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer: Continued to the Present Time by Richard Burn (1797)
"... foreign leather which is not compleatly made into gloves and mittens, but is
cut into the form of gloves and mittens called Shafts or tranks) the fame ..."
4. Customs Tariff Act of August 5, 1909, Revised to March 1, 1910, with by Downing (R.F) & Co (1910)
"400 " tranks shall pay 75 per cent, of the duty on gloves for the ... 451 " pieces
of leather for, not tranks, in addition to duty on leather from which cut ..."
5. Polk's Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti and Washtenaw County DirectoryAnn Arbor (Mich.) (1916)
""THE LUGGAGE SHOP" TRAVELERS' GOODS, Sample tranks, Sample Cases and Anto tranks
Telephone Main 4407 64 and 66 Congre.« St. East DETROIT, MICH. ..."
6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The most delicate part of the glove- maker's art, in which exact judgment is
required, comes in preparing the "tranks" or slips from which the separate ..."
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