Meaning of green-shave | Babel Free

Definitions

To scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.

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Examples

“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.”

“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, means for causing scrapers or cutters to press⟳ against the hide⟳ or skin and operative mechanism for the table and roll, substatially as set⟳ forth.”

“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.”

“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.”

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