unlime

English

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(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.