Wiktionary
n. (non-gloss definition agent noun Agent noun of tainter:) someone or something that taints.
Gazetteer
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Tainter can refer to:
Usage examples of "tainter".
The Tainter gates were huge curved steel doors fifty feet high and forty-two feet wide, with support struts in the middle that attached the gates to trunnion pins on each side.
There was another catwalk forty feet below him, at the same level as the trunnion pins on which the Tainter gates pivoted.
He was blown thirty feet back, up and over the catwalk’s safety railing, and onto the number five Tainter gate.
Just as the knife started to pierce through the skin to muscle, Patrick summoned up the last volt of power left in the suit, braced his feet squarely against the number five Tainter gate, and activated the thrusters.
In the glare of the searchlights illuminating the huge concrete dam, they could see pieces of the Tainter gates tearing off and flying into space.