释义 |
coiner /ˈkɔɪnə /noun1 historical A person who coins money, in particular a maker of counterfeit coins.4. But if the tenant uses the premises as a coiner's den or as a deposit for stolen goods, a single instance of such uses seems to me quite enough to satisfy the language of the statute....- It might, in theory, have happened that coining would have become a form of business, in which private individuals turned silver into coins that would have been accepted by the reputation of the coiner… It did not happen in Greece.
- The general opinion seemed to be that his father had been a noted coiner in New York, - an Irishman of the name of Melmody, - and, in one memoir, the probability of the descent was argued from Melmotte's skill in forgery.
2A person who invents a new word or phrase: who is the coiner of ‘family values’ in its current sense?...- My earliest cite is from September, 2002, but I don't have the resources to find the original coiner of the phrase.
- The coiners of the word would have never used it to describe a geo-political system.
- I am not sure if the coiner of said phrase really meant quite this small.
Rhymesjoiner, purloiner |