Meaning of green-shave | Babel Free

Definitions

To scrape the flesh side of an untanned hide.

transitive

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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