noun
tanner
TAN
noun
1
Someone whose trade is turning animal hides into leather.
"The tanner's workshop smelled strongly of the chemicals used to cure the hides."
2
An old British coin worth six pence.
"His grandfather remembered paying a tanner for a pint before decimalisation."
How to Use Tanner
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA leather-worker by trade, or, historically, British slang for a sixpence coin.
When to use it
The coin sense is dated British slang, rarely used since decimalisation in 1971.
Word Forms
tanners plural, tanners plural, tanners plural
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Etymology
From Old English tannere, built on the verb tan plus the agent suffix -er.