tanner

noun

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.”

3. A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.
4. (British, colloquial)A former British coin worth six old pence.

   “[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; […]”

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

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

   “Near-synonym: snow crab”

   “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.”

   “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.”

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

adj

1. (comparative, form-of)comparative 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.”

name

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