noun
definition
A place where people tan hides to make leather.
definition
The business of a tanner.
Examples of tannery in a Sentence
The town has rope and carriage factories, and close by is a large tannery, worked by convict labour, and supplying the army.
Dating back to 1706, itâs been everything, including a tannery.
Last night's meeting heard that tannery workers in the 1960's were given annual inoculations against anthrax.
Embsay for instance had several cotton mills one of which became a large tannery in the early 20th century.
The following morning I gave orders to return, and entered in the American River, landed at the former tannery.
William Church the founder, purchased the old tannery in the High St with a mortgage of £ 400.
Again, large meat works often have their own tannery.
Pittards is a large leather tannery based in Leeds.
Of particular interest is the discovery of the 17th century workhouse, the Oracle, and a 16th century tannery.
He owns and runs the town's tannery and lives in another of the Town Houses.
The manufacture of shoes and other leather products, particularly patent leather, became an important industry.early in the 19th century; in 1770 there was one tannery here; in 1792 there were three; a large one, still in operation, was built in 1827; in 1837 there were 155 curriers and patent leather makers in the city, which then had an annual product of leather valued at $899,200; in 1905 the value of the leather, tanned, curried and finished was $13,577,719.
Dyers' shops, a tannery and a shop where colours were ground and manufactured - an important business where almost all the rooms of every house were painted--are of special interest, as is also the house of a surgeon, where numerous surgical instruments were found, some of them of a very ingenious and elaborate description, but all made of bronze.
He found Neckinger Mills, which was a tannery built in the 1860s, and bought the freehold.
But our best day by far was with the director of a project among child tannery workers in Chennai.
Island Green Retail Park was formerly 11.25 acres of derelict buildings and land, formerly the old brewery and tannery buildings and railroad sidings.
Richard was a cousin who ran a tannery business at Potterton.
He owns and runs the town 's tannery and lives in another of the Town Houses.
There used to be a tannery in the town, which made the place stink of rotting cowhide.
In the town are cotton factories and a tannery.
There is an extensive sole-leather tannery.
Tannery); To find four numbers such that, if we take the square of their sum any one of them singly, all the resulting numbers are squares (III.
See Bergk-Hinrichs, Aristarchus von Samos (1883); Tannery, Aristarque de Samos; also Astronomy.
Cantor, Vorlesungen fiber Geschichte der Mathematik (Leipzig, t880); P. Tannery, " Thales de Milet ce qu'il a emprunte a l'Egypte," Revue Philosophique, March 1880; " La Tradition touchant Pythagore, Oenopide, et Thales," Bul.
There are several manufacturing establishments, among which are one of the largest manufactories of paper-bags in the United States and a large tannery.
Though without large manufacturing industries, the town has joinery works, a brass and iron foundry, a tannery and brewery.
The city contains cotton mills, factories for ginning and pressing cotton, a tannery and boot factory and flour mill.
Thus, several French writers - notably, Tannery and Noel - regard them as dilemmas advanced, with some measure of success, in refutation of specific doctrines attributed to the Pythagoreans.
The Ouvres of Fermat have been re-edited by P. Tannery and C. Henry (Paris, 1891-1894).
The city has important interests in lumber, besides foundries, machine shops, granite works - there are several granite (notably red granite) quarries in the vicinity - a tannery, and manufactories of shoes and calcined plaster.