| Title: | Wet work |
| Original Title: | Travail à mouiller |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 16 (1765), p. 568 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Alexis Hagadorn [Columbia University Libraries] |
| Subject terms: |
Tanning of sheep and goat leather
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| Citation (MLA): | "Wet work." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Alexis Hagadorn. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.169>. Trans. of "Travail à mouiller," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 16. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Wet work." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Alexis Hagadorn. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.169 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Travail à mouiller," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 16:568 (Paris, 1765). |
Wet work, Tawer’s term , means working sheep skins on the herse while wetting them when one wishes to make parchment. See Parchment.