Definition of Tannery
a place that makes leather from animal skins
Examples of Tannery in a sentence
During colonial times, many hunters would sell their captures to a tannery so that the tanner could take them and turn them into coats and outerwear. 🔊
The process in the tannery required the apprentice to first clean the hides by removing all dirt, hair and debris as much as possible. 🔊
Soaking the horse pelts at the tannery loosened up the fur from the skin so that the tanner could eventually make it into a buckskin. 🔊
Instead of taking the animal skin to the tannery, the local hunter decided to make it into a rawhide leather. 🔊
A strong chemical smell could always be detected once you entered the tannery due to all the chemicals they used to turn the furs and pelts into leather. 🔊
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