tanners in English

noun
1
a person who tans animal hides, especially to earn a living.
The first exemption act allowed paper mill workers, shoemakers, textile workers, tanners , wagon makers, and others to remain at their work, provided the profits of factories that used exempted workers not exceed 75 percent.
2
a lotion or cream designed to promote the development of a suntan or produce a similar skin color artificially.
Sunless tanners are lotions and creams you apply to create a nut-brown gloss nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
3
a sixpence.
Because everybody's been helping themselves to a tanner here and a fiver there, consequently there is not enough left in the kitty to pay out a pension for people like me who have spent all their life expecting one.

Use "tanners" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "tanners" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "tanners", or refer to the context using the word "tanners" in the English Dictionary.

1. Tanners tan hides to make leather shoes.

2. You're still swineherds and tanners and masons.

3. The Talmud put tanners on a level below dung collectors.

4. Pewterers, plumbers, millwrights, saddlers, Bridlers, trunkmakers and distillers Hexham Weavers Tanners and Shoemakers Skinners and Glovers Hatters Morpeth Weavers Tanners Skinners, Glovers, and Butchers Fullers and Dyers Merchant Taylors Smiths, Saddlers and Armourers Cordwainers

5. The skins of fish from hatcheries or fish farms are cleaned and cured with natural tanners.

6. Barkometer: A hydrometer used by tanners in ascertaining the strength of infusions of bark, or ooze.

7. Tanners soaked animal skins in the sea and treated them with lime before scraping off the hair.

8. Agriculturists, tanners, merchants, and mullahs (Muslim clerics) were brought from Turkestan, and small principalities sprang up on the Irtysh and the Ob.

9. Those people handling dead animals, such as abattoir workers and tanners, are at most risk of developing cutaneous anthrax.

10. He takes the leather crafts, which the Guilds regulated, one by one: tanners, curriers, skinners, girdlers, glovers, cordwainers, pouch makers, Cofferers, and Leathersellers

11. There are rogues and knaves here, friars and priests, barons and Burgesses, bakers and butchers, tailors and tanners, masons and miners, and folk of many other crafts

12. A similar, low key approach is taken by Shrewsbury-based Tanners, established in 1842, who just call their, highly recommended, old-vine merlot dominated version Claret …

13. The unconcern of the Hakka tanners to the world outside is evident in the greenish sludge flowing down the drains , heavy with the chromium waste that bespeaks the hazard of cancer .

14. Tannin is a valuable tool in the tanners tool chest, and knowing exactly how Bark tanned or not a hide should be in order to get certain qualities, is part of the ongoing experiments….

15. This type of Airbrush is ideal for custom textile artists, spray tanners, mural painters, scenery painters, custom car and cycle artists, surfboard painters or anyone wanting to cover a lot of acreage with flawless paint.