piner

plural piners

1. obsoleteA torturer.First known use 10th–17th c.
2. An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.First known use 19th c.
3. rareSomeone who is pining for something.

plural piners

1. ScotlandA labourer, especially a turf cutter.First known use 15th c.

plural piners

1. TasmaniaSomeone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.First known use 19th c.

   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 USSomeone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander.First known use 19th c.

plural Piners

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.