piner
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 5
Definition of piner
8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (obsolete)A torturer.
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noun
- (obsolete)A torturer.
- An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.
- (rare)Someone who is pining for something.
- (Scotland)A labourer, especially a turf cutter.
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(Tasmania)Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.
“Then there was Bunny D—, an Aboriginal piner who had been in the camps with Dad and who was famed for his bush skills.”
- (Southern-US)Someone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander.
name
- (countable, uncountable)A surname.
- (countable, uncountable)An unincorporated community in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From pine (“languish, grieve”) + -er.
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