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Tanbark

noun

Bark rich in tannin; bruised and cut in pieces to use for tanning; spent tanbark used as a ground covering.

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"Tanbark" Quotes from Famous Books

... I go every chance I get—to a real country circus—which isn't often. There's nothing so convinces me that I am still a little boy as the smell of tanbark and sawdust, and the sound of ...

— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond

... hastily through the cool, deep hall and out upon the front porch. A tender expression lingered about his strong face as the younger man swung into the circle; a tenderness mingled with approval for the stylish animal that picked up its feet from the odorous tanbark with a precision bespeaking generations of thoroughbred ancestors. The Colonel was a great believer ...

— Sunlight Patch • Credo Fitch Harris

... night. It was one of those dry, cold, clear evenings when you feel like running races, or snowballing, and pussy was as full of life and go as even a cat could be. So he had a little Wild West Show all by himself, with the rugs for tanbark, and went so fast that he looked like a long black-and-white fur streak ...

— Dew Drops, Vol. 37. No. 16., April 19, 1914 • Various

... morning, and let off in rapid succession, in front of my hotel, a volley from the tip of his lash that would make the street echo again, and that might well have been the envy of any ring-master that ever trod the tanbark. Now and then, during my ramblings, I would suddenly hear some master-whip, perhaps that of an old omnibus-driver, that would crack like a rifle, and, as it passed along, all the lesser whips, all the amateur snappers, would strike up with a jealous and envious emulation, ...

— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs