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stainer|ˈsteɪnə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 steynour, 5 staynour, stener, stenyoure, 6 steyner, 6–7 stayner, 6– stainer.
[agent-n. f. stain v.: see -or 2 b, -er1.]
1. One whose employment is staining; one who colours wood, etc. with pigments which penetrate below the surface; † a worker of ‘stained cloths’ (see stained ppl. a. 2). See also Painter-Stainer, paper-stainer.
1388Wyclif Exod. xxxv. 35 That thei make the werkis of carpenter, of steynour [Vulg. polymitarii], and of broiderere. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 81 Peyntour, steynour, mason, nor carpentere. 1471Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 131 John Sutton, Goldsmyth, and John Body, Staynour. 1489Acc. in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 196 Paid to the stener ffor workemanship ther-off [buckram for standards], x s. viij d. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 364 The tayllours helde y⊇ craft of stayners. 1538Elyot Dict., Rhyparographus, a paynter of tryfles, a Stayner. 1589Lodge Scillaes Metam. Ep. Ded., From the shop of the Painter, shee is falne into the hands of the stainer. 1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5018/4 All Printers, Painters and Stainers of Paper. Ibid. No. 5025/2 Silks, Callicoes, Linens and Stuffs which shall..be in the Possession of any private Painter, Stainer or Dyer to be printed.
2. One who or something which stains or calumniates.
1647J. Norris (title) A Lash for a Lyar; Or, The Stayner Stayned, Being An Answer to a false and scandalous Pamphlet.
3. A tincture of colouring matter used in staining.
1891in Century Dict.
Hence † ˈstaineress, a female stainer.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf. Manhode iii. xxvii. (1869) 150 Þis hand is a steynowresse of corteynes and a makere. [A mistranslation; the orig. has estendresse stretcher.] |