tan : Idioms & Phrases

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Black and tan

  • noun an English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921
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  • black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; used in describing certain breeds of dogs.
Webster 1913

black-and-tan

  • adjective satellite having a pattern of black and tan
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black-and-tan coonhound

  • noun American breed of large powerful hound dogs used for hunting raccoons and other game
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black-and-tan terrier

  • noun a breed of short-haired rat terrier with a black-and-tan coat that was developed in Manchester, England
    Manchester terrier.
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fan tan

  • noun a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)
    fantan.
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Gyle tan

  • (Brewing), a large vat in which wort ferments.
Webster 1913

Tan bed

  • (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed.
Webster 1913

Tan pickle

  • the liquor used in tanning leather.
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Tan spud

  • a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees.
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Tan stove

  • . See Bark stove, under Bark.
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Tan vat

  • a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.
Webster 1913

tanner's cassia

  • noun evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
    avaram; Senna auriculata; Cassia auriculata.
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