Definitions for tannage

tannage tan·nage

Spelling: [tan-ij]
IPA: /ˈtæn ɪdʒ/

Tannage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in tannage (aaegnnt).

Definitions for tannage

noun

  1. the act or process of tanning leather.
  2. the product of tanning; something that is tanned.

Origin of tannage

First recorded in 1655-65; tan1 + -age

Examples for tannage

The tannage is mellow, but not so much as is usual for upper leather.

The bath is exhausted by commencing the tannage of a succeeding pack.

For the tannage of sole leather in the drum by the cutiloid process, about 120 per cent.

The tannage lasts, therefore, 27 weeks, of which 18 weeks (two-thirds) are in layers.

The tannage consists of oak bark and myrabs together with gambier.

After tannage is complete the goods should be paddled with a 1½ per cent.

The liquors may be warmed; this quickens the tannage and also leaches the sumach.

The remaining liquor is used to commence the tannage of the next pack.

If for blacks the tannage is with gambier and chestnut extract.

Certain it is, however, that time renders the tannage more permanent.

Word Value for tannage
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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