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▪ I. penner1 Obs. or dial.|ˈpɛnə(r)| Also 4–5 -ere, 5 Sc. -air, 5–6 pener, pennare, 5–8 -ar, 6 -or, -ard(e. [ad. med.L. pennārium, f. penna pen: see -arium, -ar.] A case or sheath for pens, of metal, horn, leather, etc., formerly carried at the girdle, often together with an inkhorn; a pen-case; in later use, sometimes, a writing-case.
c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 635 Priuely a penner gan he borwe, And in a lettre wroot he al his sorwe. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. iv. (1495) b iij/1 Aungels..bere pennars and ynke hornes and other Instrumentes of wryttes. 14..Lat. Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 601/34 Pennarium, a Pennere. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. vii. (Lion & Mouse) Prol. vi, Ane inkhorne, with ane prettie gilt pennair. 1520Whitinton Vulg. (1527) 27 One hath pyked out all the pennes from my pennarde. 1541Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. in Pitcairn Crim. Trials I. *321 For ane Pennare of silver, to keip Pyke-teithe in, to þe Kingis grace. 1591Florio 2nd Fruites 89 S. Giue me my penknife, to make a pen. D. It is in your penner, you doe nothing but write. 1611Cotgr., Escriptoire, a Penner. 1659Hoole Comenius' Vis. World xci. (1672) 187 We put up our Pens into a Pennar [calamario]. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 193/2 The Eagle holdeth a Writers penner and Ink-horn in her Beak, by the strings of it. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. ix. (ed. 3) 40 The Penner and Inkhorn. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xlii. (1873) 235 The lid o' the penner. ▪ II. penner2|ˈpɛnə(r)| [f. pen v.2 + -er1.] One who pens or words a writing, document, statement, etc.; a writer of something (either the original composer, or a copier). Almost always with of.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 162 If Edmund Hadhenham, the penner of the Chronicles of Rochester, lye not shamefully. 1612Sir G. Paule Abp. Whitgift (1699) 40 The authors and penners of some of these libels were, John Penry and John Udall. a1635Corbet Poems (1807) 24 A Ballad late was made But God knowes who'es the penner. 1758Blackstone Comm. I. Introd. i. 11 The penners of our modern statutes. 1817Canning in Parl. Deb. 1869 With regard to the address before the House; the numerous penners of it should not have launched into affirmations. 1825Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Indic. (1830) 49 The penner of this same Act of Lord Eldon's. ▪ III. † penner3 Obs. rare—1. See quot.
1624Heywood Gunaik. vii. 355 A bodkin or penner which she wore in her haire for an ornament. ▪ IV. penner4|ˈpɛnə(r)| [f. pen v.1 + -er1.] One who pens cattle; also (Austral. and N.Z.) penner-up, one who pens sheep ready for the shearers in a shearing shed.
1897D. McK. Wright Station Ballads 101 The penner⁓up is cursing at the back, The boss is looking savage at a long Australian card. 1904Daily News 2 Dec. 5/1 There are 42 different men in this gang—‘penners’, ‘shacklers’, ‘hoisters’, ‘gutters’, and so on. 1911J. Collier Pastoral Age in Australasia xxix. 216 Besides the shearers, there are penners-up, wool-rollers, pickers-up. 1940E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (1954) xv. 130 The ‘sheep-oh’ (penner-up)..in addition to filling up the catching-pens..weighed the bales and recorded them..in the wool book. 1952[see dagger n.2 b]. 1955People (Austral.) 30 Nov. 20/1 The penner-up bustles more sheep up the race. 1965J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 8 Penner⁓up. This shedhand keeps the sheep moving into the shed and is ready to fill the catching pen when a shearer calls sheep-oh'. One man would be full-time ‘penner-up’ in sheds of six or more shearing stands. 1972E. Hargreaves Fair Green Weed ii. 24, I had to go down to the cow-pen... One of the penners has had an accident... His mule shied. |