binner

plural binners

1. One who attempts to earn money from what can be recovered from trash bins, as coin-deposit bottles and cans.

   Synonyms: dumpster diver

plural binners

1. ScotlanddialectalA bickering noise.
2. ScotlanddialectalA state of agitation; flurry.

   Aye, if he wis comin' in his fite claes, bodybulk, I doot ye wid be a' in a binner, as weel's the horses. . . . I kent fin ye wis in sic a binner 'it a' wisna richt.

   1915, H. Beaton, Benachie, pages 50, 163

present singular third person binners · participle present binnering · participle past binnered · past binnered

1. ScotlanddialectalTo create a bickering noise.

   To see the lambs come binn'ring down the brae.

   1768, A. Ross, Works (S.T.S.), page 163

1. A surname from German.