tanyard
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tanyard
Example Sentences
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Michael's dwelling house and tanyard, Abel Brawn's blacksmith-shop, Christy M'Curdy's mill, and my school-house, made up the sum-total of the settlement.
From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton
The next day John Smith entered the tanyard, not this time slinking in as a thief in the darkness, but introduced by the master himself as an engaged workman.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
Those matter-of-fact tones sounded as if it were the most natural thing in the world to go out to the tanyard at 10 o'clock at night instead of going upstairs to bed.
From A Book of Quaker Saints by Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
At Leeds he found employment in the tanyard of a Mr. Robert Barker, where he presently became foreman.
From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway
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
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