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▪ I. tanner1|ˈtænə(r)|
Also ? 1 tannere, 2–3 tanur, 4 tannere, 4–5 -our, 5 -ar(e, 6 -ar, tanyer.
[The form corresponds with a rare OE. tannere from tannian to tan, and with OF. tanere (1226 in Godef. Compl.), nom. case of taneör, tanour:—L. tannātor, tannātōr-em, but perh. actually represents the French word. The form tanyer appears to be assimilated to words like sawyer, hosier, farrier; but cf. OF. tanière (1280 in Godef.).]
1. a. One whose occupation is to tan hides or to convert them into leather by tanning.
a975Grant by K. Eadgar in Kemble Cod. Dipl. II. 411 Be eastan ea and tannera hole [lit. tanners' hole]. a1189in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., Var. Coll. IV. 50 Deorlingno tanur, Iordano cordwaner. 1226in J. T. Gilbert Hist. & Munic. Doc. Irel. (Rolls) 83 Willelmus, filius Iohannis tanur. c1350Usages Winchester in Eng. Gilds (1870) 359 Euerych tanner þ⊇ halt bord in þ⊇ heyestret of Wynchestre. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. i. 223 Taylours and tanners and tyliers of erthe. 1415Ordo paginarum in York Myst. Introd. 19 Tannours. [In heading of Play (c 1435) called The Barkers.] 14..Customs of Malton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 63 A tannar schall not use nor ocupy schomakar crafte. 1526Tindale Acts ix. 43 He taryed many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner. 1565Old Order Bk. in the Tower 39 Also we present, all the Tanyers that wash their skins within the Tower Ditch. 1739Miller Gard. Dict. II. s.v. Tan, I find there are several Degrees of Fineness, to which the Tanners do grind their Bark. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. II. viii. 177 In every form which the story has taken.., the mother of the Conqueror appears as the daughter of a tanner at Falaise.
b. Comb. tanner eagle, a rendering of Gr. βυρσαίετος (lit. hide-eagle), as a designation of Cleon, who was a tanner. Also compounds of tanner's, tanners', as tanner's or tanners' bark, tanner's hair, tanner's mill, tanner's ooze, tanner's waste, tanner's water; tanners' sumac, the tree Rhus Coriaria, the dried and chopped leaves and shoots of which are used in tanning; tanners' tree, Coriaria myrtifolia, a low deciduous shrub of Southern Europe used in tanning; also = tanners' sumac; tanners' turf, tan-turf.
1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 179 Your snake—and snake, so runs the prophecy, Shall beat the *tanner-eagle. 1837Wheelwright tr. Aristoph. I. 304 This Paphlagonian is the tanner-eagle.
1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Acacia, The third, sixth, and seventh Sorts..should have a Hot-bed of *Tanner's Bark.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 254 A stock of Clay well mix'd with Horse-dung to prevent its freezing, and with *Tanner's Hair to prevent its cracking.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Tan, Moulin à tan, a *Tanners mill. 1587–1725 *Tanners owze, etc. [see ooze n.1 2 α, β].
1858Hogg Veg. Kingd. 222 *Tanners' sumach. 1884Miller Plant-n., Sumach, Tanner's, Rhus Coriaria.
Ibid., *Tanner's tree, Coriaria myrtifolia and other species.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 86/2 *Tanners [Turfe],..the Bark cast out of the Tan-Pits,..wrought into Turfes, which dried is good fire Fuel.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 608 The bark of oak, or *tanners' waste, when completely putrefied..greatly improves cold, stiff heavy soils.
1552Huloet, *Tanners water, nautea, æ.
2. [f. tan v. 2 a.] A lotion, cream, etc., designed to promote a sun-tan when applied to the skin on exposure to the sun; artificial tanner, man-made tanner, one which colours the skin brown without the aid of the sun.
1969Daily Tel. 2 July 15/8 People with sensitive..skins should be wary of all artificial tanners. It's advisable to try any man-made tanner on a small patch of skin. 1972Vogue June Special 40/2 The new tanners: something here for every kind of skin... Rub your tanner right up into the hairline. 1979Country Life 31 May 1776/1 There are many artificial tanners on the market; the Charles of the Ritz Self Tanning Foam, {pstlg}3.95, claims to..tan the skin in a similar way to the sun.
▪ II. tanner2 slang (now Hist.).|ˈtænə(r)|
[Origin uncertain: see hearsay account in B. Hooper Leather Manufact. (1891) 65.]
A sixpence. Also attrib.
1811Lex. Balatr., Tanner, a sixpence. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Tanner, a sixpence. Three and a tanner. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxxvii, ‘How much a-piece?’ The man in the monument replied, ‘a Tanner’. It seemed a low expression, compared with the monument. 1908Daily Express 3 Feb. 1/1 Seventeen tannercabs [sixpenny cabs] made their appearance in the streets on Saturday, and were in great demand. |