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piner.

A torturer.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun
  1. A torturer.

    obsolete
  2. An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.

  3. Someone who is pining for something.

    rare
Where this word comes from

From pine (“languish, grieve”) + -er.

noun
  1. A labourer, especially a turf cutter.

    Scotland
Where this word comes from

Apparently from Middle Dutch piner, pijner (Dutch pijnder), from pinen, pijnen (“to labour, toil”).

noun
  1. Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.

    Tasmania
  2. Someone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander.

    Southern-US
Where this word comes from

From pine (“type of tree”) + -er.

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