A craftsman who tans skins and hides

Usage examples of tanner.

He has already stamped his personality on the batch, bawling out one guy for not doing his job, while on another occasion, on sentry duty, he was conversing with Coyle sotto voce when Robinson stomped up ignoring all the rules on keeping quiet at night so Tanner backhanded him in the face without even looking like Baloo unleashing a heavy paw.

Svege Tanner at Strength and Beauty said that over the weekend, somebody took twenty-five thousand dollars in cash from an apartment rented by an outstate legislator named Alex Truant.

Tanner knew that he went to see the woman Angevine, whom Tanner had not met, a servant or bodyguard for Captain Tintinnabulum.

In what little information he gave out, Tanner learned that Angevine had been press-ganged ten years ago.

He did not talk about Tanner Sack, or about Angevine, whose name had peppered his conversations recently.

And as she had left, while Shekel waited for her in the doorway, Angevine had rolled to Tanner and spoken to him quietly.

When he spoke to Angevine about his experience the next day, she echoed Tanner Sack almost exactly.

Tanner stared at the dinichthys, his heart hammering as the monstrous thing powered toward him.

Tanner moaned and snapped away, sensing the dinichthys below him, kicking out fearfully, slashing ineffectually at nothing as with a sudden vicious tide the ridges and scales swept past him, tons of muscle flexing, the sound of bone on bone jarring through the water.

When Tanner had faced the dinichthys, he had hurled himself unthinkingly into the water.

Out of the corner of her eye Raina spotted pretty Lansa Tanner, her cheeks dusted with flour, fussily chopping carrots.

Woodcarvers and carpenters, potters, glaziers, tanners and cobblers and saddlemakers, goldsmiths and stonemasons, coopers, wainwrights, and especially Grijalva Limnersmasters of every craft waited nervously for the outcome of fierce competition.

The heavy industry, the large mills, the dyers, the tanners, the wagonwrights, and the rest, were not evident.

There were smiths and weavers and potters, woodwrights, masons, glaziers, tanners, chandlers, shoe and harness makers, lute and lyre makers, fullers, spinners, rug makers, wagonwrights, carvers, founders, tinkers, coopers, toolmakers, brickmakers, glassmakers, stonecutters, dyers, and enamelers.

This district on the fringe of the capital and the quarters behind the broad avenues were little more than open fields with scattered settlements, where clogmakers, armorers, papermakers, tanners, and dyers pursued their calling.