What is "tannery"

Usage examples of "tannery".

Originally shipped as 125cc, some kid from the tanneries had obviously rebored the pot and stripped off the mudguards.

Baton Rouge that was still undrained, the streets lined with saloons and tanneries.

Keep all the books for the tannery and wagonwright and shoemaking shop, the smithy and all the stores scattered across four counties.

James had been city-born and -bred, and the stench of a warm day near the tanneries and dyers, or the pungency of the cattle pens and poultry yards, was taken for granted, fading into the background so that it went mostly unnoticed.

His companion walked on, poking a spear through hovels and the other pathetic shelters the refugees from Gent had put up beyond the tannery, but they were already empty.

And our wool that was sold in Rome in the time of Juvenal and our flax and our damask from the looms of Antrim and our Limerick lace, our tanneries and our white flint glass down there by Ballybough and our Huguenot poplin that we have since Jacquard de Lyon and our woven silk and our Foxford tweeds and ivory raised point from the Carmelite convent in New Ross, nothing like it in the whole wide world.

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.

There are paper mills, tanneries, distilleries, oil factories, watch factories on a large scale, steel mills, copper works, twenty iron foundries at least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Chatillon, at Audincourt, and at Beure, are tolerably large.

There were more ordinary businesses here: cafes, tanneries, and dye shops, but from a nighttime view the place looked like nothing but a den of iniquity.

In the brewhoose at the Low Lights, in Richardson’s tannery, a chain manufactory, the clay pipe factory at the bottom o’ Wooden Bridge Bank, in one o’ them roperies as stretched oot as lang an’ narrow as their ropes, interruptin’ easy traffic.

They have brought in slaves who work the smithies and armories and in the tanneries, so the children reported.

The air carried an odd mixture of sweet clover, fresh earth, and growing things, and the early morning fumes from the Jackson, Wisconsin, tannery.

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.