unlime
verbEtymology From un- + lime.
1
To remove the lime from (hides) as part of the tanning process.
- The process of unliming hides and skins in tanning has been a slow and disgusting one, consisting in soaking the skins in a bath of manure in water, called bate.1888, Popular Science, volume 34, number 10, page 287:
- Synonyms
- delime