[f. TAN v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TAN; an instance of this.

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1481.  in Eng. Gilds (1870), 332. As in tannyng, coryyng, cuttyng, or sowyng.

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c. 1515.  Cocke Lorell’s B., 2. A tanner for euyll tannyng of lether.

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1598.  Florio, Adustione,… a tanning in the sunne.

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1794.  Rigging & Seamanship, I. 85. The tanning of sails in the royal navy has been tried.

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1863.  Sir G. G. Scott, Glean. Westm. Abb. (ed. 2), 65. Witnessing the ‘tanning’ of the rascal’s ‘hide.’

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  attrib.  1727–41.  Chambers, Cycl., Tan, the bark of the oak, chopped, and ground, by a tanning-mill, into a coarse powder.

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