[f. TANNER1 + -Y: see -ERY. Cf. F. tannerie (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).)
1. A place where tanning is carried on.
[1396–1401. Rolls of Parlt., I. 228/2. Coreum, cortices et utensilia in tanneria sua.]
1736. J. M’Ure, View Glasgow, 285. There is a stately Brewarie … adjacent to the above great Tannarie.
1839. Penny Cycl., XIV. 437/1. The tanneries of Marocco.
1856. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., vi. 269. A tradition … describes the premises to have been long employed as a tannery.
attrib. 1852. Hanna, Chalmers, IV. xxi 401 Never was the true work of school and church done beller than in that old tannery-loft.
2. The process or trade of tanning; tannage.
14[?]. Beryn, 3237. And I shall tech hym, as I can,… Tyll it be abill of prentyse to crafft of tan[e]ry.
1732. Rec. Convent. Roy. Burghs, V. 529. A propper clause in the tannage bill for saving the rights of the cordiners of … royal burghs as to their priviledge of tannery.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. V. vii. Gun-boring, Altar-burning, Saltpetre-digging, and miraculous improvements in Tannery!
attrib. 1887. Pall Mall G., 12 Sept., 8/2. A great fire broke out … in the extensive tannery works.
