unlime

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un- +‎ lime

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unlime (third-person singular simple present unlimes, present participle unliming, simple past and past participle unlimed)

  1. (transitive) To remove the lime from (hides) as part of the tanning process.
    • 1888, Popular Science, volume 34, number 10, page 287:
      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.

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