tanstuff

English

Etymology

From tan +‎ stuff.

Noun

tanstuff (countable and uncountable, plural tanstuffs)

1. Material that can be used for tanning (the process of making leather).
   • 1896, Bertram Blount, Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, page 394:

     Knapp is of the opinion that the tanning process is only due to the coating of the hide fibres with the tanstuff, be this a tannin, a basic salt or an oil.

   • 2011, Leather Processing & Tanning Technology Handbook:

     Next morning the hides are taken out and the strength of the liquor is increased by 2°BK. by adding some ground tanstuff or some stronger liquor to it and the hides handled in the stronger liquor again as on the first day and left in it overnight.

   • 2016, S[uraj] L[al] Kochhar, “Vegetable Tannins and Dyestuffs”, in Economic Botany: A Comprehensive Study, 5th edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 515:

     Canaigre is one of the few tanstuffs that seems to be well adapted to mechanised agriculture, should it become an economic crop.