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third-person singular simple present unlimes, present participle unliming, simple past and past participle unlimed
(transitive) To remove the lime from (hides) as part of the tanning process. quotations examples
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.
1888, Popular Science, volume 34, number 10, page 287