Tannery
['tæn(ə)rɪ]
Definition
(n.) A place where the work of tanning is carried on.
(n.) The art or process of tanning.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a tannery, denotes contagion and other illness. Loss in trade is portended. To dream that you are a tanner, denotes that you will have to engage in work which is not to your taste, but there will be others dependent upon you. To buy leather from a tannery, foretells that you will be successful in your undertakings, but will not make many friends.
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Examples
- When Pasteur at the age of fifteen was in Paris, overcome with homesickness, he had exclaimed, If I could only get a whiff of the old tannery yard, I feel I should be cured. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- My father set up for himself in business, establishing a tannery at Ravenna, the county seat of Portage County. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He went first, I believe, with his half-brother, Peter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It also possesses a remarkable resistance to corrosive acids and for this reason is the preferred material for tanks and vats in wineries, breweries, chemical works, mines, tanneries, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The extract of bark in liquor form is used today by all large tanneries. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Randolph