Crossword clues for tanbark
Wiktionary
n. 1 The bark of the oak (or other trees) used as a source of tannin 2 The spent bark used as a ground covering
WordNet
n. bark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering
Wikipedia
Tanbark is the bark of certain species of tree. It is traditionally used for tanning hides into leather.
The words " tannin", " tanning", " tan," and " tawny" are derived from the Medieval Latin tannare, "to convert into leather."
Bark mills are horse- or oxen-driven or water powered edge mills and were used in earlier times to shred the tanbark to derive tannins for the leather industry. A "barker" was a person who stripped bark from trees to supply bark mills.
Usage examples of "tanbark".
Like lightning, each performer pulled his horse to the tanbark and lay down himself.
Worse yet, if you had behaved so in our chapiteau here, with its floor of sawdust and tanbark and straw, you could have burned the whole Florilegium to the ground, and killed numberless innocent people.
The brigantine had diminished astern until tanbark sails showed as a speck against flawless ocean.
Where tanbark sails had caught clean wind only moments before, charred beams wallowed amid ash-smeared waves.
On the Isle of the Vaere, Taen bent over the crystal basin, her vision centered with feverish intenÂsity upon the dusky tanbark sail of the boat which tacked across the harbor.
Every morning fresh straw and tanbark was spread to keep mud from fairgoers' boots, but in short order it was trampled, crushed and dragged into the slushy dirt.