Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tanned with a solution the principal ingredient of which is oak-bark.
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Examples
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Fur usually degenerates in the soil, due to the tanning process (with alum) that does not result in leather as resilient as oak-tanned (or similarly tanned) leather.
Garment Production a stitch in time 2009
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Fur usually degenerates in the soil, due to the tanning process (with alum) that does not result in leather as resilient as oak-tanned (or similarly tanned) leather.
Archive 2009-01-01 a stitch in time 2009
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One was a tall, hard-bodied man standing six-foot-three with an oak-tanned, craggy face.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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One was a tall, hard-bodied man standing six-foot-three with an oak-tanned, craggy face.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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I'd rather go on the road to-day with a line of shoes made out of soft blotting paper, if they had good things said about them in the magazines and if flaming posters went with them than to try to dish out oak-tanned soles with prime calf uppers at half price and with a good line of palaver.
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