tanner

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtænɚ/

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• Homophone: Tanner
• Rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)

From Middle English tannere, from Old English tannere; and Old French tannour, equivalent to tan +‎ -er.

tanner (plural tanners)

1. A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

Probably from the name of the coin designer, John Sigismund Tanner (died 1775)

tanner (plural tanners)

1. (Britain, colloquial) A former British coin worth six old pence.

   Synonyms: hog, (from Cockney rhyming slang) lord, sixpence

   • 1851, George Borrow, chapter III, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], OCLC 1167545500, page 32:

     [A]s you are so flash of your money, though you say you are poor, you may give me a tanner to buy a little baccy with; […]

tanner (plural tanners)

1. A type of commercially-fished crab, Chionoecetes bairdi or Chionoecetes opilio.
   • 1979, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale:

     The new plant is assumed to result in additions to the resident fleet during the tanner and dungeness crab seasons and function as a port of call for an increased number of trollers, resulting in more local seafood processing.

   • 1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 7:

     There were a few Dungeness, a couple of blue kings and one small and indignant squid, but mostly the pot was filled with tanners, Chionoecetes bairdi & Chionoecetes opilio.

   • 1993, Spike Walker, Working on the Edge, →ISBN:

     We had come here to catch tanner crab, which the Japanese were buying up as fast as we could catch them.

tanner

1. comparative form of tan: more tan
   • 2011, Jasmine Rodriguez, Hematite (page 173)

     He was a lot tanner than I remembered, or maybe he just looked darker because of the change of light.

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tanner (genitive tandri, partitive tandrit)

1. Alternative form of tander

• tantere

From Proto-Finnic *tander. Equivalent to *tante +‎ -re. Cognate to Karelian tanner, Karelian tannar, Veps tandar, Veps tandarta (“to tread down”), Veps tandreh, Estonian tanderdada (“id., dialectal”), Estonian tandermik (“playground”), Proto-Samic *tuontër (“a kind of mountain in Lapland”). Probably derived from Proto-Uralic *tante-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑnːer/, [ˈt̪ɑnːe̞r]

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• Rhymes: -ɑnːer
• Syllabification^(key): tan‧ner

tanner

1. field
2. ground
3. hard tamped soil or snow
4. yard
5. open flat area

• tannertaa (“to tread down, tread tough”) (dialectal)

• taistelutanner
• sotatanner

• manner
• mantere
• penger
• penkere
• kinner
• kintere
• Tonttu Tonteri (a traditional name for a pixy)
• Tonteri (a Finnish surname)

Itkonen, Erkki; Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000) Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words]‎ (in Finnish), [note: linked online version also includes some other etymological sources], Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN

tan +‎ -er

• IPA^(key): /ta.ne/

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• Homophones: tannai, tanné, tannée, tannées, tannés, tannez

tanner

1. (transitive) to tan (in leather-making)
2. (transitive) to beat physically, whip, thrash
3. (transitive) to exasperate, annoy, make someone sick of something

• “tanner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

tanner

1. Alternative form of taner

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-nn, *-nns, *-nnt are modified to n, ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Borrowed from Arabic تَنُّور‎ (tannūr).

tanner (definite accusative tanneri, plural tannerler)

1. plate
2. dish

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