rawstock
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]rawstock (countable and uncountable, plural rawstocks)
- Hides or skins that have been preserved to be tanned later.
- 1991, Employment and Working Conditions and Competitiveness in the Leather and Footwear Industry, Geneva: International Labour Office:
- These fluctuations result from the interaction between the supply of hides and skins and the demand for the leather that is tanned from the rawstock.
- 2009, A. M. Pearson, T. R. Dutson, Inedible Meat by-Products, page 356:
- A plump rawstock is necessary because thickness reduction from high-pressure embossing exceeds the plumping effects of vegetable tanning. Native steer or branded steer hides are appropriate rawstock.