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green shave en · VERB

Meanings

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

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
green shaves Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
green shaved Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
green shaved Tense=Past lexicographic
green shaving Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic