green-shave
green-shave verb: to scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.
Verb
green-shave (third-person singular simple present green-shaves, present participle green-shaving, simple past and past participle green-shaved)
- To scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.
- There are diverse opinions as to the relative value of liming or sweating, pin-wheeling, milling, green-shaving or “ fleshing,” and whether “sewed” or “open-tanned” goat-skins are preferable.1885, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Volume 70, page 279
- In a machine for unhairing or green-shaving hides or skins, the combination of the following instrumentalities, to wit : a rotary table, means for securing a hide or skin to said table, a journalled roll provided peripherally with scrapers or cutters, means for causing said scrapers or cutters...1887, Canadian Patent Office Record - Volumes 15-16, page 8
Examples of green-shave in a sentence
- The sides, after being unhaired, are put in clean water over night, then green-shaved and put in a bate of hen manure four or five days.1889, Annual report of the Bureau of Animal Industry - Volume 4, Parts 1887-1888, page 425:
- The most convincing argument for those tanners who continue to green-shave their hides would be to pick out several of the large green shavings and tan them.1891, John W. Stevens, Leather Manufacture:
Forms of green-shave
| third-person singular present | green-shaves |
|---|---|
| present participle | green-shaving |
| past participle | green-shaved |
| past | green-shaved |
| alternative form | green shave |
Words formed from green-shave
Questions about green-shave
- What does green-shave mean?
- Green-shave means to scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.
- How do you use green-shave in a sentence?
- The sides, after being unhaired, are put in clean water over night, then green-shaved and put in a bate of hen manure four or five days.
- What part of speech is green-shave?
- Green-shave is a verb.
- What is the past tense of green-shave?
- The past tense of green-shave is green-shaved.
Words near green-shave in the dictionary
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