green shave
English
Verb
green shave (third-person singular simple present green shaves, present participle green shaving, simple past and past participle green shaved)
- Alternative form of green-shave
- 1887, Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain), Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, page 621:
- Machines for unhairing and green shaving hides and skins.
- 1894, John Daggett, Amelia Daggett Sheffield, A Sketch of the History of Attleborough, page 353:
- In September of that year William Coupe came from Pawtucket to do what is called "green shaving" for Mr. Knowles.
- 1897, Charles Thomas Davis, The Manufacture of Leather:
- A few tanners "green shave," or flesh out of the lime, and do not flesh out of the water soak at all.
- 1914, Leather & Shoes - Volume 47, page 24:
- It was very delicate work to clean the flesh side, or green shave it.