carroting
SayKAR-uh-ting/ˈkæɹətɪŋ/
- 1A step in hat-making where animal fur is brushed with a mercury liquid to get it ready for felt.
Like washing and cutting vegetables before cooking: a first step that gets things ready.
The workers finished the carroting before the fur went to the felting room.
Carroting left an orange stain on the rabbit skins.
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Origin
From carrot plus -ing, because the drying fur turned orange like a carrot.