We also fry our meat in cocoa-nut oil, in dubbin, and in salad oil-if we can "find" any.
"The Siege of Mafeking (1900)"
J. Angus Hamilton
I've seen that dubbin boiling on the beach; there's tallow in it, and tar and resin as well.
"Wanderers"
Knut Hamsun
By well cleaning the dust-pan with whitening, rubbing it up well with the clean rag until it had a nice surface, and then lightly passing a rag saturated with dubbin over it, you could produce a beautiful polish by a few slight touches of the "finisher."
"Prisoner for Blasphemy"
G. W. [George William] Foote