Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A yard or inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An open-air
tannery
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Examples
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The poverty-stricken widow always congratulated herself upon its conclusion, and it never occurred to her that the amount of work that Birt did in the tanyard was a disproportionately large return for the few days that the tanner's mule ploughed their little fields.
Down the Ravine Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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The building in the tanyard was a very large building, it had three stories.
A slave's adventures toward freedom : not fiction, but the true story of a struggle 1845
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Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of.
Watershed 2010
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We went down the hill and found Jo Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard.
The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009
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Their hides ended up at the nearby tanyard, where they were cured for processing into shoes, boots, and saddles.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Their hides ended up at the nearby tanyard, where they were cured for processing into shoes, boots, and saddles.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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The three cotton factories and the tanyard were not in the village itself, but a little way off.
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It give the dwelling-house and three thousand dollars, gold, to the girls; and it give the tanyard (which was doing a good business), along with some other houses and land (worth about seven thousand), and three thousand dollars in gold to Harvey and William, and told where the six thousand cash was hid down cellar.
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We went down the hill and found Jo Harper and Ben Rogers, and two or three more of the boys, hid in the old tanyard.
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Grant never called for help in his life, but just then I seemed to catch a glimpse, within the masterful commander and veteran statesman, of the thin-skinned Scotch yokel from the Ohio tanyard uneasily adrift in an old so-superior world which he'd have liked to despise but couldn't help feeling in awe of.
Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999
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