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Tanning [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Converting raw hides into leather.

Tanning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.

Tanning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tanning Encyclopedia Britannica

TANNING. See Leather.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 23, p. 48
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