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piners

piners is the plural of piner.

Meaning of piner

Noun (1)

piner (plural piners)

  1. (obsolete) A torturer.
  2. An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.
  3. (rare) Someone who is pining for something.

Noun (2)

piner (plural piners)

  1. (Scotland) A labourer, especially a turf cutter.

Noun (3)

piner (plural piners)

  1. (Tasmania) Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.
    • Then there was Bunny D—, an Aboriginal piner who had been in the camps with Dad and who was famed for his bush skills.2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 152
  2. (Southern US) Someone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander.

See all 8 meanings of piner

Proper noun capitalized: Piners

Piners

  1. (plural) plural of Piner

Questions about piners

What is piners the plural of?
Piners is the plural of piner.
What part of speech is piners?
Piners is a proper noun.

Words near piners in the dictionary

  1. Pinero
  2. Pineroesque
  3. Pinerola
  4. Pineronian
  5. Pineros
  6. piners
  7. pinery
  8. pines
  9. pines away
  10. pinesap
  11. pinesaps

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