noun
- a place where animal hides are tanned to make leather
Usage: historical
Examples
- The old tanyard by the river processed cowhides into leather.
- Workers at the tanyard used oak bark to tan the animal skins.
- The smell from the tanyard could be detected from miles away.
- Many colonial towns had a tanyard to supply leather for shoes and saddles.
- The abandoned tanyard still had large vats where hides were soaked.
- He worked at the tanyard, turning raw hides into usable leather.