tanyard
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tanyard
Example Sentences
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They went to my master's tanyard in broad open day and took leather.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
He spoke Russian, he knew leather, and he could ignore the smells of a tanyard; these facts entitled him to a livelihood.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
The hide of the tanyard; See the story of Arlette or Herleva, the tanner’s daughter, mother to William ‘the Bastard.’
From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Morley, Henry
My mother was the weaver and they had a tanyard on the place.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
It was something between a shambles, a museum, and a tanyard, and exhaled in consequence the mixed effluvia of decomposing flesh, alcohol, tannin, and the oil of petroleum.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
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