Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who pens or writes; a writer.
- noun A case to contain a pen and penholder, made of metal, horn, leather, or the like.
- noun In heraldry, a representation of the old pen-case or penner carried at the buttonhole or girdle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who pens; a writer.
- noun obsolete A case for holding pens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who pens; a
writer . - noun A
case for holdingpens .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The query-penner in question, alas for him, is not quite in the league of V-Nabs, however.
FRIDAY; Or, More Stuff You Probably Don't Want to Put in a Query Letter 2009
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First, Rob Zombie, he of the large hats and penner of Superbeast has of course gone the film route.
Archive 2006-10-01 Tripp 2006
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First, Rob Zombie, he of the large hats and penner of Superbeast has of course gone the film route.
Two paths for cartoonish rockstars Tripp 2006
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'Your Grace,' he added to the Archbishop, 'ye are the greatest penner of solemn sentences that I have in my realm.
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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The picker-up, and the penner, with the rest of the shearing horde.
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They were large brown nuts or seeds, and hanging from his girdle with his penner and inkhorn they clashed when he walked.
Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Early in life he became, as he tells us, "an author of playes and a penner of love pamphlets."
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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Corrections made to printed original.p. 569 "With Ovyddes penner ye are gretly in favor," - "ooyddes" in original, corrected by subsequent Erratum note
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Caithness and Ker his watch and some other things out of his pocket, he gave to Loudon his silver penner, to Lothian a double ducat, and then threw off his coat.
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And as for the third book, which treateth of the general and last destruction of Troy, it needeth not to translate it into English, for as much as that worshipful and religious man, Dan John Lidgate, monk of Bury, did translate it but late; after whose work I fear to take upon me, that am not worthy to bear his penner and ink-horn after him, to meddle me in that work.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
hernesheir commented on the word penner
Another term from heraldry.
December 9, 2010