Meaning & use
Beamhouse
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The section of a tannery where raw animal hides are cleaned, soaked, limed, and dehaired before tanning.
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Workers in the beamhouse soak hides in lime pits to loosen the hair and flesh.
Modern tanneries have automated much of the beamhouse process once done entirely by hand.
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The "beam" in "beamhouse" refers to the wooden beam over which hides were traditionally draped and scraped by hand during processing.
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tannery yard
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