Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In tanning, a process preparatory to the removal of the epidermis and hair from hides, consisting in soaking them from six to twelve days in tanks through which flow streams of fresh cold water.
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Examples
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Each and every one of us in this house is sick, and not in the delicate, dab-tissue-to-nose-and-sniffle kind of way, either: this is lung-hacking, cold-sweating, vomiting on bed sheets plague.
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White in the face, cold-sweating, she gripped the back of a large, cushioned chair for balance.
Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000
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For a moment, he was actually cold-sweating scared of her, despite at least a foot and several inches height advantage and a good chance at outsprinting her, even in this crowd.
Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996
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The corridor, with its lines of metal doors and cold-sweating walls, seemed dark after the lamp in the cell.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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Maybe because I’d slept that day, maybe … who knows why … I woke up around three o’clock with an attack of the three-o’clock deep, black, heart-palpitating, cold-sweating, think-I’m-gonna-die terrors.
Twilight Nancy Pickard 1995
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