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stainer

WordNet
  1. (n) stainer
    a worker who stains (wood or fabric)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Stainer
    A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.
  2. Stainer
    One who stains or tarnishes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) stainer
    One who or that which stains, blots, or tarnishes.
  2. (n) stainer
    One who stains or colors; especially, in the trades, a workman whose employment is staining wood, etc. See paper-stainer.
  3. (n) stainer
    A tincture or coloring matter used in staining.
  4. (n) stainer
    An insect that causes stains, as the cotton-stainer.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Stainer
    one who stains or blots: a dyer
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Short for distain—O. Fr. desteindre—L. dis-, away, tingĕre, to dye.

Usage in the news

At GlaxoSmithKline, group treasurer Sarah-Jane Chilver-Stainer issued a record-breaking dollar bond issue and reorganized the treasury team. treasuryandrisk.com

Usage in literature

It is easy to laugh at all that ensued when first the mummers and the stainers of canvas strayed into Mayfair. "The Works of Max Beerbohm" by Max Beerbohm

BALLANTINE, JAMES, glass-stainer and poet, born in Edinburgh (1808-1877). "The Nuttall Encyclopaedia" by Edited by Rev. James Wood

Nevertheless, genuine Stainer violins are recognizable, and still retain a fancy price. "Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873." by Various

Sir John Stainer born 1840. "Leaves of Life" by Margaret Bird Steinmetz

Scott's brokers are Stainer & Elting; our attorneys are, as you know, Landon, Brooks & Gayfield. "The Danger Mark" by Robert W. Chambers

Daughter of Jarius, J. Stainer. "Sixty Years of California Song" by Margaret Blake-Alverson

Because his phraseology was colorless, he has become a stainer of phrases, a sort of musical euphuist. "Musical Portraits" by Paul Rosenfeld

There is, however, a 'Jegge' given in Stainer and Barrett's Dict. "Shakespeare and Music" by Edward W. Naylor

Eugene, Glass-stainer, 81 Roberts. "The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890" by Various

The sound-hole is an imitation of that of Stainer. "The Violin" by George Hart