Sentence examples for tanner from inspiring English sources

The word 'tanner' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person that works with leather, a person who tans animal hides, or a unit of currency, such as the old British sixpence. For example: "My grandfather was a tanner, and he used to craft beautiful leather objects."

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tanner

noun

A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

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Around half of German high-school students go on to dual training in one of 344 trades, from tanner to dental technician.

The Richard Field who published Shakespeare's two poems Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, in 1593 94, seems to have been (as an apprenticeship record describes him) the "son of Henry Field of Stratford-upon-Avon in the County of Warwick, tanner".

When Henry Field the tanner died in 1592, John Shakespeare the glover was one of the three appointed to value his goods and chattels.

His father, Benedetto de' Franceschi, was apparently a tanner and shoemaker, prosperous enough for his son to become well educated and literate in Latin.

The son of a tanner of Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Benbow served in the navy and merchant marine from 1678 and became captain of a naval vessel in 1689.

The son of a tanner, Hawkwood chose a soldier's career, serving in the French wars of Edward III, who probably bestowed a knighthood on him.

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GM strategists have closely studied the Toyota flap and are already copying many of their rival's moves, such as appointing a "safety tsar" who can sidestep the usual corporate bureaucracy and get a recall ready fast".Transparency is important," says Don Tanner, a reputation specialist with Tanner Friedman a consulting firm in Detroit.

"We believe he looked at rushes, and discussed them with editor Peter Tanner, as well as possibly having a hand in the writing of the first treatment".

Eleanor Tanner, 29, and Andrew Hutchinson, 30, are expecting their first child in early May.

The strategic priorities and budget committee - the so-called "kitchen cabinet" - comprising Rudd, Gillard, Swan and then finance minister Lindsay Tanner took almost all the important decisions.

The show (Lindsay Tanner, the Labor ex-minister, calls it a sideshow) is a spectacle.

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