Tanning

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  • noun. The art or process of making leather from rawhides.
  • noun. Darkening of the skin by exposure to the sun.
  • noun. A beating; a whipping.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The art or process of converting hides and skins into leather; the manufacture of leather.
  • noun. An appearance or hue of a brown color produced on the skin by the action of the sun.
  • noun. Same as tannage, 3.
  • noun. A whipping; a flogging.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The art or process of converting skins into leather. See tan, v. t., 1.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of tan.
  • verb. The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the skins of animals, which do.
  • noun. The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.
  • noun. A spanking.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
  • noun. process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
  • noun. making leather from rawhide
    • Word Usage
    "The news that: Courses in tanning are worth the same in school league tables as A-level maths papers, it emerged yesterday."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    activity  bodily function  bodily process  body process  craft  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Banning  Canning  Channing  Manning  banning  
    variant
    tan  
    verb-stem
    tan  
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