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coiner
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Word definitions for coiner in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a maker of counterfeit coins someone who is a source of new words or new expressions a skilled worker who coins or stamps money [syn: minter , moneyer ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coiner \Coin"er\, n. One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. --Macaulay. An inventor or maker, as of words. --Camden.
Usage examples of coiner.
She was sitting on the crossboard at the coiner of her sandbox one evening after supper, staring out at the park, catching glimpses of it through gaps in the hedgerow, which was still filling in with new spring growth.
The laws against coiners and clippers are only severe with regard to these particular coins, as the Government has special reasons for not wishing them to be depreciated.
The torments of the Third and Fourth Hells are also relatively light, and are designed for such sinners as bad bureaucrats, backbiters, forgers, coiners, misers, dishonest tradesmen, and blasphemers.
Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making.
The laws against coiners and clippers are only severe with regard to these particular coins, as the Government has special reasons for not wishing them to be depreciated.
Jewish coiners minted money with Hebrew inscription for Polish kings in the 11th and 12th centuries.
The British Army, richly blessed with gaol-birds, had no trouble in finding expert coiners in its ranks.
He did not really expect to see the coiners at their fell work, though he had pretended to when we were talking in the tree.
We wanted to be detectives, and we thought a gang of coiners infested your house, so we looked through your window last night.
Meanwhile, at every session of the Old Bailey the most terrible example of coiners and clippers was made.
Sherlock Holmes, who was in his most genial mood, lent an attentive ear to the Scotland Yard man's account of a gang of French coiners whose operations were actually threatening the stability of the louis d'or, and thereafter proceeded to bemuse the Scotsman with a highly ingenious theory as to the effects of runic lore upon the development of the highland clans.
They are coiners on a large scale, and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the place of silver.
I shouldn't mind being a detective to lie in wait for a gang of coiners, now, and spring upon them unawares, and secure them - single-handed, you know, or with only my faithful bloodhound.
Dicky thought it ought to be something fat, because coiners are always a desperate gang.
The very house of Israel herself, the very Mint-house, Tower Hill, and Lombard Street of Israel herself, was full of false coiners and clippers of the promises.