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Tunnage vs Tannage - What's the difference?

tunnage | tannage |

As nouns the difference between tunnage and tannage

is that tunnage is alternative form of lang=en while tannage is the act, operation, or result of tanning; a tanning.

tunnage

English

Noun

(en noun)
    • (Webster 1913)

    tannage

    English

    Noun

  • The act, operation, or result of tanning; a tanning.
  • * 1845 , , The Flight of the Duchess'', 1994, Tim Cook (editor), ''The Works of Robert Browning , page 340,
    • They should have got his cheek fresh tannage / Such a day as to-day in the merry sunshine! / Had they stuck on his fist a rough-foot merlin!
  • * 1938 , US Depoartment of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin , Issues 551-575, page 36,
    • After the layer tannage was completed, the crops and bellies from the 44 hides were reassembled and handled as a unit in each subsequent process until finished.
  • * 1954 , Journal of the Royal Society of Arts , Volume 102, page 850,
    • With the exception of spruce bark, which cannot be considered to be a typical tannin, all the tannins give degrees of tannage in the neighbourhood of 50.
  • * 2009 , National Institute of Industrial Research Board Of Consultants & Engineers, Leather Processing & Tanning Technology Handbook , India, page 37,
    • The possible combined tannages' are numerous but are, in general, limited to the light leathers. Combination ' tannages are very ancient.