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tan⋅ner

1  [tan-er]
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–noun
a person whose occupation it is to tan hides.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE tannere. See tan 1 , -er 1
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tan⋅ner

2  [tan-er]
–adjective
comparative of tan 1 .

tan⋅ner

3  [tan-er]
–noun
British Slang. a sixpenny piece.
Origin:
1805–15; orig. uncert.

Tan⋅ner

  [tan-er]
–noun
Henry Os⋅sa⋅wa  [os-uh-wuh] , 1859–1937, U.S. painter, in France after 1891.

tan

1  [tan] verb, tanned, tan⋅ning, noun, adjective, tan⋅ner, tan⋅nest.
–verb (used with object)
1. to convert (a hide) into leather, esp. by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
2. to make brown by exposure to ultraviolet rays, as of the sun.
3. Informal. to thrash; spank.
–verb (used without object)
4. to become tanned.
–noun
5. the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
6. yellowish brown; light brown.
7. tanbark.
–adjective
8. of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
9. used in or relating to tanning processes, materials, etc.
—Idiom
10. tan someone's hide, Informal. to beat someone soundly: She threatened to tan our hides if she found us on her property again.
Origin:
bef. 1000; 1920–25 for def. 2; ME tannen to make hide into leather, late OE *tannian (in ptp. getanned; cf. tanner 1 ) < ML tannāre, deriv. of tannum oak bark, tanbark < Gmc; cf. OHG tanna oak, fir, akin to D den fir

Related forms:
tan⋅na⋅ble, adjective
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tan 1   (tān)   
v.   tanned, tan·ning, tans

v.   tr.

  1. To convert (hide) into leather, as by treating with tannin.

  2. To make brown by exposure to the sun.

  3. Informal To thrash; beat.

v.   intr.
To become brown or tawny from exposure to sun.
n.  

  1. A light or moderate yellowish brown to brownish orange.

  2. The brown color that sun rays impart to the skin.

  3. Tanbark.

    1. Tannin.

    2. A solution derived from tannin.

adj.   tan·ner, tan·nest

  1. Light or moderate yellowish-brown to brownish-orange.

  2. Having a suntan.

  3. Used in or relating to tanning.


[Middle English tannen, from Old English *tannian, from Medieval Latin tannāre, from tannum, tanbark, probably of Celtic origin.]
tan'nish adj.
tan·ner 1   (tān'ər)   
n.  One that tans hides.
tan·ner 2   (tān'ər)   
n.   Chiefly British
A sixpenny coin formerly used in Britain; a sixpence.

[Origin unknown.]
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Word Origin & History

tan  (v.)
late O.E. tannian "to convert hide into leather" (by steeping it in tannin), from M.L. tannare "tan, dye, a tawny color" (c.900), from tannum "crushed oak bark," used in tanning leather, probably from a Celtic source (e.g. Breton tann "oak tree"). The meaning "make brown by exposure to the sun" first recorded 1530. To tan (someone's) hide in the figurative sense is from 1670. The adj. tan "of the color of tanned leather" is recorded from 1665; the noun sense of "bronze color imparted to skin by exposure to sun" is from 1749; as a simple name for a brownish color, in any context, it is recorded from 1888.

tanner 
"sixpence," slang word first recorded 1811, of unknown origin. J.C. Hotten, lexicographer of Victorian slang, thinks it may be from tanner and skin, rhyming slang for "thin," presumably in reference to the smallness of the coin. (Not to be confused with tenner, slang for "ten pound note," which dates from 1861.)
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Financial Dictionary

TAN

See tax anticipation note.

Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2tan
Function: noun
: a brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or wind
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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