Tanning

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The art or process of making leather from rawhides.
  • n. Browning of the skin by exposure to sun and weather.
  • n. Informal A beating; a whipping.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of tan.
  • v. The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the skins of animals, which do.
  • n. The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
  • n. A spanking.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The art or process of converting skins into leather. See tan, v. t., 1.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The art or process of converting hides and skins into leather; the manufacture of leather.
  • n. An appearance or hue of a brown color produced on the skin by the action of the sun.
  • n. Same as tannage, 3.
  • n. A whipping; a flogging.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
  • n. process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
  • n. making leather from rawhide
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Banning    Canning    Channing    Manning    banning    branning    canning    enchanting    fanning    granting