Definition of "tan-bark" [tan-bark]

• Same as tan, 1. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It seemed as if all local varieties of trees and vines had conspired to weave the leafy roof -- maples, big madronos and laurels, and lofty tan-bark oaks, scaled and wrapped and interwound with wild grape and flaming poison oak."
• "Occasionally a small schooner visits the cove for the purpose of loading wood or tan-bark for the San Francisco market."
• "If the timber could be conservatively managed as are live-stock products, so that all the waste could be utilized, all the small articles, shingles, lath, posts, tan-bark and extract, pulp-wood, wood for distillation and small manufactured articles would be made by-products of the larger cuts."