tanner

Pluraltanners

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A worker who turns animal skins into leather.

   Like a baker who turns flour into bread, but a tanner turns raw skin into leather.

   The tanner soaked the cowhide in a deep pit for several weeks.

   Every tanner in the village worked close to the river to wash the skins.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A person who puts a tan on someone's skin, often by spraying it on.

   Like a painter covering a wall, but the color goes onto skin instead.

   The tanner sprayed an even coat of color across her shoulders.

   Before the dance, she booked a tanner to give her a healthy glow.

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3. 3
   adjective

   Comparative of tan. Use it to say something has more of a tan color or skin.

   Her arms looked tanner after a week at the beach.

   The leather chair grew tanner as it sat in the sun for years.

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4. 4
   nouncolloquialBritishcountable

   An old British coin worth six pennies, used before the money changed in 1971.

   Like a small coin once used for cheap little buys, the way a quarter is today.

   He paid a tanner for a bag of sweets at the corner shop.

   She tipped the porter a tanner and hurried off to catch her train.

   Similarsixpence

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5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   A type of long-legged ocean crab caught in cold seas for its meat.

   Like a big spider that lives in the sea and is good to eat.

   The cook cracked open a tanner and pulled out the sweet leg meat.

   Each tanner was sorted by size before it went to market.

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   A big dark beetle with very long feelers, found in old trees.

   Like a beetle about as long as your finger, with feelers even longer.

   A tanner crawled slowly across the rotting log.

   We spotted a tanner with feelers longer than its own body.

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