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/pˈeɪntər/ /pˈeɪnər/ Listen

noun

Painter n. (Naut.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything.

Painter n. (Zool.) The panther, or puma. (A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.)

Painter n. One whose occupation is to paint; esp.:

(a)

One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint.

(b)

An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.

Painter's colic. (Med.) See Lead colic, under Colic.

Painter stainer.

(a)

A painter of coats of arms.

(b)

A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.

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Etymology of 'Painter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Painter" Quotes from Famous Books

... Crow soothingly. "I have been thinking the matter over, and I believe I can do something. Listen. Yesterday I found brushes and a box of colors in a room of the King's palace. They belonged to the Court Painter. Now they belong to me, for I have hidden them away in a hollow tree where no one else can find them. I thought they might be useful, and I ...

— The Curious Book of Birds • Abbie Farwell Brown

... saw a sunset sky more brilliant. Painter never threw on canvas colours so full of a living beauty. Deep purple and lucent azure,—crimson and burnished gold! ...

— The Good Time Coming • T. S. Arthur

... picture shown in Leonard and Gertrude is very crude. Everywhere is visible the rough hand of the painter, a strong, untiring hand, painting an eternal image, of which this in paper and print is the merest sketch.... Read it and see how puerile it is, how too obvious are its moralities. Read it a second time, and note how earnest it is, how exact and ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... again. At last he consented to leave, an' a difficult job it was to get him into the boat wi' the sea that was runnin'. When we got alongside of our smack, he laid hold of Sterlin's oar an' told him to throw the painter aboard. My friend jumped up an' threw the end o' the painter to one of the hands. He was just about to lay hold o' the side an' spring over when the skipper stumbled against him, caused him to miss his grip, an' sent him clean overboard. ...

— The Young Trawler • R.M. Ballantyne

... are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead. I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure. I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets, Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America; neither Americus Vespueius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the ...

— Walking • Henry David Thoreau

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