The process of washing and cleaning buck or deer hides before tanning or further processing.
'Buckwash' plus the gerund suffix '-ing.' This technical term describes a step in historical hide-processing operations.
Buckwashing was so important that the quality of the water mattered—tanneries were built near clean rivers specifically because hard water or dirty water could ruin an entire batch of valuable hides.
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