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tanneries

tanneries is the plural of tannery.

Meaning of tannery

Noun

tannery (countable and uncountable, plural tanneries)

  1. A place where people tan hides to make leather.
    • The River Avon divides the village in two, and at its centre is a tannery, built in 1918 and still in use, with its frontage on the river bank.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 155, about Downton, Wilts
    Synonyms:
    tanhouse
  2. (uncountable) The business of a tanner.

Questions about tanneries

What is tanneries the plural of?
Tanneries is the plural of tannery.

Words near tanneries in the dictionary

  1. Tanner scale
  2. Tanner stage
  3. Tanner stages
  4. tanner's sumac
  5. tanner's sumacs
  6. tanneries
  7. tannerite
  8. tanners
  9. tannery
  10. Tannese
  11. tanness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tanneries (page history and authors); tannery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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