tannare

tannare [tannum+-are, ME tannen] 1 to convert (skin or hide) into leather by infusion of tan-bark, tan. c1130 de sutore ~ante. nullus sutor potest emere coria ad ~andum (Leg. Burg.) RegiamM I f. 145v; c1177 transiens persolvet ‥ pro tacra coriorum, iiij d. ; pro corio tanato, j ob. Act. Hen. II II 55; 1284 nullus extraneus ferens coria ~ata ad vendendum (Stat. Gild.) RegiamM I 160; c1303 coreum crudum, ob; coreum ~atum, j d. EEC 162 (cf. MonA I 143); 1318 quorum iij coria boum ~antur et corea j vacce et j superannate dealbantur MinAc Wistow 51; 1332 saccis de correo tannetto Arch. LXXVII 125; 1387 capiatis ‥ de quolibet corio equi, eque, bovis et vacce frisco, salito aut ~ato j quad. RScot 87b; mille coria ibidem ~avit Entries 602ra. 2 to treat (fishing-nets) with tanners’ ooze or sim. substance for preservation. 1287 in viij retibus vj cordis filo et cork’ emptis et eisdem ~andis, xx s. ix d. ob. MinAc 827/39 r. 3; 1288 in ij bussellis corticis emptis pro retibus ~andis, vj d. Ib. 991/22. 3 (? p. ppl. as sb. n., heap of) tan-bark. 1308 [P. obstructed part of the high street with his tan-bark] cum ~ato suo CourtR Wakefield II 163. 4 (turba ~ata) tan-turf (block of waste oak-bark from tannery). 1294 in ‥ turbis tannitis emptis ad inde faciend’ cineres pro dicto plumbo affinando KR Ac 260/4 m.1. 5 (p. ppl. as adj.) tan-coloured, tawny. b (as sb. n.) tan-coloured cloth. 1322 tres ulnas panni tannet’ KR Ac 385/4; 1341 pro xij ulnis panni tanneti mixti coloris emptis pro liberacione clerici de capella Ib. 389/9 m. 3; 1359 coopertorio de panno ~ato furrurat’ de minuto verio CalExch III 246 (cf. ib. III 240: j coopertorum de panno tauny).  b c1325 iij pannos de tanneto velveto stragulato LTR Ac 14 r. 6d.; c1337 in pannis de burneto, de tanneto, de melleto Ac. Durh. 534.