TANNER

TAN

tan

(adjective) of a light yellowish-brown color

tanner

(noun) a craftsman who tans skins and hides

sixpence, tanner

(noun) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Tanner

An occupational surname for a tanner.

A male given name from surnames, of modern usage.

Etymology 1

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

Etymology 2

Probably from the name of the coin designer, John Sigismund Tanner (died 1775)

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

(British, colloquial) A former British coin, worth six old pence

Synonyms

• sixpence

• hog

• (via Cockney rhyming slang) lord

Etymology 3

Noun

tanner (plural tanners)

A type of commercially-fished crab, Chionoecetes bairdi or Chionoecetes opilio.

Adjective

tanner

comparative form of tan

Source: Wiktionary

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Tan"ner, n.

Definition: One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

TAN

Tan, n. Etym: [Chin.]

Definition: See Picul.

Tan, n. Etym: [F. tan, perhaps fr. Armor. tann an oak, oak bar; or of Teutonic origin; cf. G. tanne a fir, OHG. tanna a fir, oak, MHG. tan a forest. Cf. Tawny.]

1. The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.

2. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.

3. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. Tan bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed.

– Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather.

– Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees.

– Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark.

– Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

Tan, a.

Definition: Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. Black and tan. See under Black, a.

Tan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tanned; p. pr. & vb. n. Tanning.] Etym: [F. tanner, LL. tannare. See Tan, n.]

1. To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.

Note: The essential result in tanning is due to the fact that the tannins form, with gelatins and albuminoids, a series of insoluble compounds which constitute leather. Similar results may be produced by the use of other reagents in place of tannin, as alum, and some acids or chlorides, which are employed in certain processes of tanning.

2. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.

Tan, v. i.

Definition: To get or become tanned.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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