tanner

plural tanners

1. A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
2. A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.

   Eighty-one-year-old [Martha] Stewart says that a spray tan before her debut Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover boosted her confidence. Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in Barbie, had a personal tanner on set.

   2023 June 17, “New bronze age: fake tan is back, and it won’t turn you orange”, in The Guardian

3. A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.

   Synonyms: sawyer

plural tanners

1. UKcolloquialA former British coin worth six old pence.

   They'd say hello, maybe slip you a tanner.

   2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 469

   1 more example

   [A]s you are so flash of your money, though you say you are poor, you may give me a tanner to buy a little baccy with; […]

   1851, George Borrow, chapter III, in Lavengro; the Scholar—the Gypsy—the Priest. […], volume II, London: John Murray […], →OCLC, page 32

   Synonyms: hog, lord, sixpence

plural tanners

1. Any of several spider crabs of the genus Chionoecetes, especially Chionoecetes bairdi and Chionoecetes opilio.

   Near-synonym: snow crab

   3 more examples

   The new plant is assumed to result in additions to the resident fleet during the tanner and dungeness crab seasons and function as a port of call for an increased number of trollers, resulting in more local seafood processing.

   1979, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale

   There were a few Dungeness, a couple of blue kings and one small and indignant squid, but mostly the pot was filled with tanners, Chionoecetes bairdi & Chionoecetes opilio.

   1993, Dana Stabenow, Dead in the Water, →ISBN, page 7

   We had come here to catch tanner crab, which the Japanese were buying up as fast as we could catch them.

   1993, Spike Walker, Working on the Edge, →ISBN

1. comparativecomparative form of tan: more tan

   He was a lot tanner than I remembered, or maybe he just looked darker because of the change of light.

   2011, Jasmine Rodriguez, Hematite, page 173

1. A surname originating as an occupation for a tanner.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
3. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Limestone County, Alabama.
   2. A locality in Washington County, Georgia.
   3. An unincorporated community in Center Township, Greene County, Indiana.
   4. An unincorporated community in LaRue County, Kentucky.
   5. An unincorporated community in Scott County, Missouri.
   6. A township in Kidder County, North Dakota.
   7. An unincorporated community and former CDP, replaced by Riverpoint census-designated place, King County, Washington. May have been annexed by North Bend.
   8. An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia.