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tanstuff

noun

Etymology

From tan + stuff.

  1. derived from *stoppōn✻ — “to clog up, block, fill”
  2. derived from stoffōn
  3. derived from estofe
  4. derived from stuffa
  5. inherited from stuf
  6. compounded as tanstuff — “tan + stuff”

Definitions

  1. Material that can be used for tanning (the process of making leather).

    • Knapp is of the opinion that the tanning process is only due to the coating of the hide fibres with the tanstuff, be this a tannin, a basic salt or an oil.
    • Canaigre is one of the few tanstuffs that seems to be well adapted to mechanised agriculture, should it become an economic crop.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tanstuff. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA