tawed, ppl. a.
(tɔːd)
[f. taw v.1 + -ed1.]
Made, as white leather, by the process of tawing. Also transf. (cf. tanned).
| 1545 Rates of Customs b iv, Graye tawed, the tymber vi. s. viii. d. 1563 Mirr. Mag., Induct. xxxix, With tawed handes, and hard ytanned skyn. 1642 T. Lechford Plain Dealing (1867) 115 For the Winter they have boots, or a kind of laced tawed-leather stockins. 1711 Lond. Gaz. No. 4862/4 Hides and Skins, Tanned, Tawed or Dress'd. 1852 C. Morfit Tanning & Currying (1853) 412 The tawed leather is the raw skin combined with subchloride of aluminium. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. I. 150/2. |