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Pronunciation: [tˈanəz] (IPA)

Tanners are individuals or companies that specialize in the process of transforming animal hides or skins into leather. There are several synonyms for tanners including leatherworkers, skinsmiths, curriers, and hide processors. Leatherworkers are skilled artisans who craft leather goods using hides or skins. Skinsmiths are individuals who process and prepare hides or skins by removing hair, flesh, and other impurities to make them suitable for leather production. Curriers are leatherworkers who specialize in the finishing and polishing of leather. Hide processors refers to companies that specialize in the treatment and transforming of animal hides into leather. All of these terms relate to the process of transforming animal hides or skins into leather products.
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Digbeth not only abounded with tanners, but large numbers of hides arrived weekly for sale, where the whole country found a supply.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
He lives the way we're going, and close down by the water; and if you spring a couple o' tanners maybe I'll make him give it up."
"Merry-Garden and Other Stories"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"You'd better be careful how you scorn the 'Echo de la Bievre,'" said Barbet; "why, that's the paper of the 12th arrondissement, from which you expect to be elected; its patrons are those big tanners of the Mouffetard quarter!"
"The Lesser Bourgeoisie"
Honore de Balzac

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  • It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
    Desiderius Erasmus
  • It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
    Desiderius Erasmus

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