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.
2. A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.

   Hyponym: spray-tanner

   • 2023 June 17, “New bronze age: fake tan is back, and it won’t turn you orange”, in The Guardian‎:

     Eighty-one-year-old [Martha] Stewart says that a spray tan before her debut Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover boosted her confidence. Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in Barbie, had a personal tanner on set.

Named after John Sigismund Tanner (1705–1775), who designed a sixpence for the Royal Mint during the reign of King George II.

tanner (plural tanners)

1. (British, 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, 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; […]

   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 469:

     They'd say hello, maybe slip you a tanner.

Probably from the taxonomic eponym tanneri in the species name Chionoecetes tanneri, named after American naval officer Zera Luther Tanner (1835–1906).

tanner (plural tanners)

1. Any of several spider crabs of the genus Chionoecetes, especially Chionoecetes bairdi and Chionoecetes opilio.

   Near-synonym: snow crab

   • 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 *tandër. Equivalent to *tante- +‎ -re. Cognate to Karelian tanner, Karelian tannar, Veps tandar, Veps tandarta (“to tread down”), Veps tandreh, Estonian tanderdada, Estonian tandermik (“playground”), Proto-Samic *tuontër (“a kind of mountain in Lapland”).^[1] Probably derived from Proto-Uralic *tante-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑnːer/,

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

tanner

1. an open flat area of land: field, yard
2. hard tamped or packed soil or snow

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

• “tanner”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

From 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 , 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

• tabak