STAINER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stainer mean? 

• STAINER (noun)
  The noun STAINER has 1 sense:

1. a worker who stains (wood or fabric)

  Familiarity information: STAINER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAINER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A worker who stains (wood or fabric)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("stainer" is a kind of...):

worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)

Derivation:

stain (color with a liquid dye or tint)

 Context examples 

Amid renewed thanks and with promises to come again, the two squires bade their leave of the old Italian glass-stainer and his daughter.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hark hither, Alleyne! it cannot be that you have forgotten little Tita, the daughter of the old glass-stainer at Bordeaux?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Further, I say, that, if you will stay with me, I will teach you all the secrets of the glass-stainers' mystery: the pigments and their thickening, which will fuse into the glass and which will not, the furnace and the glazing—every trick and method you shall know.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)