Tannery (Noun)
Meaning
Workplace where skins and hides are tanned.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The smell of chemicals and raw animal hides filled the air at the tannery where I worked.
- She spent years working in a tannery, learning the intricacies of the tanning process from her father.
- The old tannery on the outskirts of town had been abandoned for decades, a relic of a bygone era.
- He got a job at the local tannery, where he was tasked with sorting and cleaning the animal hides.
- The tannery was a bustling workplace, with workers busily scraping, soaking, and treating the hides to turn them into supple leather.