Third-person singular present form of delime; removes lime or calcium compounds from material.
From delime (de- + lime) + -s (third person singular marker). Forms the present tense for describing ongoing or habitual deliming actions.
When a tannery 'delimes' hides, they're undoing one of the previous chemical processes—it's like the leather-making equivalent of rinsing out shampoo before the conditioner goes in.
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