piner

From pine (“languish, grieve”) +‎ -er.

piner (plural piners)

1. (obsolete) A torturer.
2. An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.
3. (rare) Someone who is pining for something.

Apparently from Middle Dutch piner, pijner (Dutch pijnder), from pinen, pijnen (“to labour, toil”).

piner (plural piners)

1. (Scotland) A labourer, especially a turf cutter.

From pine (“type of tree”) +‎ -er.

piner (plural piners)

1. (Tasmania) Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.
   • 2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 152:

     Then there was Bunny D—, an Aboriginal piner who had been in the camps with Dad and who was famed for his bush skills.

2. (Southern US) Someone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander.

• Perin, repin, Repin, ripen, Prine

See pine (“torment”).

• IPA^(key): /piːnər/,

piner c

1. indefinite plural of pine

See pine (“to torment, torture”).

• IPA^(key): /piːnər/,

piner

1. present of pine

• IPA^(key): /pi.ne/

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piner

1. (vulgar) to fuck, to dick

piner m or f

1. indefinite plural of pine

piner f

1. indefinite plural of pine