Untanned

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. Du. ongetand.] Not subjected to tanning.

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1535. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 14 § 5. Any manner of Lether tanned or untanned.

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1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 361. Sackes made of raw or vntande hydes.

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1639. T. de Gray, Expert Farrier, 320. Take the shreds of white leather untanned.

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1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, 386. Sheep Skins untan’d, used for Ball Leathers.

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1709. Littlebury, Herodotus, II. 194. A small Buckler compos’d of untann’d Hides.

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1821. Campbell, Song of Hybrias, 2. A right good shield of hides untanned.

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1844. H. Stephens, Bk. Farm, II. 400. Untanned sheep-skin is employed to sew on the capes of the collars.

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1883. Burton & Cameron, Gold Coast, I. 137. Long leather gaiters … and untanned shoes.

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