Meaning of Tanner | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname originating as an occupation for a tanner.
2. A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
3. A former British coin worth six old pence.
   British, colloquial
4. Any of several spider crabs of the genus Chionoecetes, especially Chionoecetes bairdi and Chionoecetes opilio.
5. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
6. A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.
7. A place in the United States:
8. An unincorporated community in Limestone County, Alabama.
9. A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.
10. A locality in Washington County, Georgia.
11. An unincorporated community in Center Township, Greene County, Indiana.
12. An unincorporated community in LaRue County, Kentucky.
13. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri.
14. A township in Kidder County, North Dakota.
15. An unincorporated community and former CDP, replaced by Riverpoint census-designated place, King County, Washington. May have been annexed by North Bend.
16. An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia.

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Examples

“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.”

“[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; […]”

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

“Near-synonym: snow crab”

“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.”

“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.”

“We had come here to catch tanner crab, which the Japanese were buying up as fast as we could catch them.”

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