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tanner - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun noun Slang, Eng. A sixpence.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.noun UK, colloquial A coin , the sixpenny bit .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
noun noun
Etymologies
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Probably from the name of the coin designer, John Sigismund Tanner (died 1775)
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Examples
Well, believe it or not, new research suggests that some people are tanorexic, addicted to what they call a tanner 's high.
CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2004 2004
Or maybe that self tanner is loaded with lead and mercury.
Think Progress » Flashback: Conservatives Guaranteed ‘ObamaCare Is Dead,’ ‘Pelosi Doesn’t Have The Votes’ 2010
Or maybe that self tanner is loaded with lead and mercury.
Think Progress » Flashback: Conservatives Guaranteed ‘ObamaCare Is Dead,’ ‘Pelosi Doesn’t Have The Votes’ 2010
The name tanner for a sixpence coin was first used at the beginning of the 19th century.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4 1993
The tanner was a tall, muscular man, clad in brown jeans, and with boots of a fair grade of leather drawn high over his trousers.
Down the Ravine Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
The tanner was a disgruntled man; he believed himself entitled to be a Nineteener, but he couldn't get recognition.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872
But back in the day, the tanner was the guy who made leather goods out of animal hides.
Cracked: All Posts 2009
The "tanner " has now become a florin, and this afternoon the
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 Various
'To Mr. Borrow is due the discovery that the word _Jockey_ is of gypsy origin and derived from _chuckiri_, which means a whip,' and he credits Borrow with the discovery of the origin of 'tanner ' for sixpence; he vindicates him as against Dr.A. F. Pott, -- a prince among students of gypsydom -- of being the first to discover that the English gypsies call the Bible the
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
Of these the tanner was the ringleader, and he said to the other grumblers, "If we can get that lying cat off the pump, we can then take his money.
The Faery Tales of Weir Anna McClure Sholl
chained_bear commented on the word tanner
"State law allows us to keep red king crabs six and a half inches or greater ... and tanner/baradai of five and a half inches or greater."
—Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand with Malcolm MacPherson, Time Bandit: Two Brothers, the Bering Sea, and One of the World's Deadliest Jobs, 164
June 22, 2008