tanbark
American-
the bark of the oak, hemlock, etc., bruised and broken by a mill and used especially in tanning hides.
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a surface covered with pieces of tanbark, especially a circus ring.
noun
Etymology
Origin of tanbark
Example Sentences
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Pity’s talent, which she seems to make up on the spot, is being able to eat anything, which she proves by picking up a handful of tanbark bits and swallowing them, splinters and all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
It's sunny and earthbound at once, with scents of wild raspberries and tanbark, with an earthy bottom note — that's the Carignane, announcing itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2017
The Row, a straight mile of tanbark along the southern edge of Hyde Park, is as sacred to British horsemen as Shakespeare's tomb is to poets, Westminster to statesmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gone were the Stravinsky ballet music, the Balanchine choreography, the blue tanbark and all the rest of the modernistic decor which had raised complaints and possibly cut the profits.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they must have smelt fodder over there somewhere, and they broke for it like the devil beatin' tanbark.
From Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro by John McElroy
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