Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building in which tan-bark is stored.
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Examples
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At a tan-house, eight shoemakers dressed leather and made shoes.
Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester
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Alfred made his way to Potts 'shoe-shop, passing the old tan-house on the way.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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The white-washed fence opposite the window in the old tan-house had the appearance of a field covered with snow, with here and there a bit of cedar shrubbery growing on it.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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Independent of this [the proprietor] has built in his yard several machines that the same current of water puts in motion; they consist of a corn mill, a saw mill, another to separate the cotton seeds, a tan-house, a tan-mill, a distillery to make peach brandy, and a small forge where the inhabitants of the country go to have their horses shod.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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Each county was instructed to erect a tan-house and to employ tanners, carriers, and shoemakers.
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I thank him for his politeness, and as little as himself care to visit the tan-house, which he calls his library. "
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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