Tanner
['tænə] or ['tænɚ]
Definition
(n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
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Definition
n. (slang) a sixpence.
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Examples
- All the pilgrims visit Simon the Tanner's house. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We have seen that Pasteur was the son of a tanner, Priestley of a cloth-maker, Dalton of a weaver, Lambert of a tailor, Kant of a saddler, Watt of a shipbuilde r, Smith of a farmer. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Simon the Tanner formerly lived here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He went first, I believe, with his half-brother, Peter Grant, who, though not a tanner himself, owned a tannery in Maysville, Kentucky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Peter saw the vision of the beasts let down in a sheet when he lay upon the roof of Simon the Tanner's house. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For three generations the Pasteurs had been tanners in the Jura, and they natur ally adhered to that portion of the population which hailed the Revolution as a deliverance. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The use of salicylic acid will thus be found highly remunerative to all tanners, as it has proved in the industries already alluded to. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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