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They convert hides to leather
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tanneries
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Word definitions for tanneries in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tannery \Tan"ner*y\, n.; pl. Tanneries . [Cf. F. tannerie.] A place where the work of tanning is carried on. The art or process of tanning. [R.] --Carlyle.
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n. (plural of tannery English)
Usage examples of tanneries.
They worked the tanneries and the armories, assisted the blacksmiths, chopped and hauled wood, built huts, broke virgin forestland to the plow, sowed and tended fields, and hauled water from the stream.
Villages and estates had each their own aroma of sweat and mold and damp wool, cesspits and rotting meat, women's holy blood, manure, all the lingering smells of human activity in the smithies and tanneries, the butcheries and the bakeries rolled into a fetid whole.
They have brought in slaves who work the smithies and armories and in the tanneries, so the children reported.
More of them now wore leather armor cut from the tanneries of Gent or carried spears and axes and iron-pointed arrows forged in Gent's smithies.
Indeed, he left soon after to tour the armories and tanneries of Gent, to take his daily excursion down to the river.
Matthias forced her to run, gagging, with a hand clapped over her mouth to keep it in and in such pain she thought her stomach was going to burst, all the way back to the tanneries so she could throw it up into the puering pits, a stew of chicken dung mixed with water that would, he prayed, hide the smell of fresh human vomit.
It's fortune's chance I was sent here to the tanneries, though it stinks like nothing I've smelled before.
Because of the smell no one wanted tanneries in their neighborhoods so the commissioners restricted them.
He could understand that, since tanneries and smithies were banished outside the walls of Tartessos by law.
What she principally noticed were the trades considered too noisome to allow in the city proper: huge tanneries, rows of dye-vats, and the city's execution ground.