tanner

Examples

• All

• The monks were farmers, clothiers, tanners, tailors...

  The History Boys (2006)

• In 1594, John Durant, a tanner, and Henry Elwood, a waterman, became involved in a quarrel at Cambridge.

  Academic text (2009)

• A Missouri tanner who fought the battle of the wilderness.

  The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)

• What about the tanner's boy?

  Fiction book (1991)

• "I spoke absently, for my mind was still on the tanner's lad."

  Fiction book (1991)

• The throng parted, and the tanner's lad came out, walking slowly between priest and judge.

  Fiction book (1991)

• He had in his custody a youth, perhaps twelve years old, whose ragged trews and smelly shirt proclaimed him a tanner's lad.

  Fiction book (1991)

• A faint flicker of the eyelids told me that the mission had been accomplished, and in fact, I could see the tanner's lad, napkin clutched to his ear, making off at speed in the direction of his loft, unnoticed by the crowd that had turned to attend to this new sensation.

  Fiction book (1991)

• In addition to regulating measurement and the terms of apprenticeship, the city often decreed the location where certain trades could work: the tanners and leather workers, for example, were by law forced to concentrate on the Giudecca, away from the center, owing to the smell the dead animals generated and the fact that the workers washed hides in the canals.

  Academic text (2008)

• The tanner worked diligently to transform raw hides into soft, quality leather.

Synonyms

C

chamar

vstanner

• Indian

1 9.9

A person who works with leather, for example making shoes

focuses on converting raw skins into usable leather rather than wider leather tasks

L

leatherworker

vstanner

1 4.8

A person who makes or repairs things from leather, like belts and bags

focuses on preparing raw skins into leather, not making finished goods

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology