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plural tanners
A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan. examples
(Britain, colloquial) A former British coin worth six old pence. quotations examples
[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; […]
1851, George Borrow, chapter III, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], page 32
They'd say hello, maybe slip you a tanner.
2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 469
A type of commercially-fished crab, Chionoecetes bairdi or Chionoecetes opilio. quotations examples
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.
1979, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale
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, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, page 7
We had come here to catch tanner crab, which the Japanese were buying up as fast as we could catch them.
1993, Spike Walker, Working on the Edge
comparative form of tan: more tan quotations examples
He was a lot tanner than I remembered, or maybe he just looked darker because of the change of light.
2011, Jasmine Rodriguez, Hematite, page 173