name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
piner
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name
Meaning 2
An unincorporated community in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A torturer.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 4
An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.
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noun
Meaning 5
Someone who is pining for something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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noun
Meaning 6
A labourer, especially a turf cutter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 7
Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Tasmania
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noun
Meaning 8
Someone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US
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History
Etymology
From pine (“languish, grieve”) + -er.
Apparently from Middle Dutch piner, pijner (Dutch pijnder), from pinen, pijnen (“to labour, toil”).
From pine (“type of tree”) + -er.