Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
pioneer . - noun In Tasmania, a man who cuts Huon pine and brings it down to the coast.
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Examples
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He's been pining for Katherine and pining for Elena — Damon's not a piner!
Vampire Diaries Video: Ian Somerhalder Says Damon Needs His Mojo Back 2012
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I may be a lot of things but one thing I'm not is a piner.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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Blodtankane, me el, kjem vaksne att og piner oss, som gav deim liv og fostra deim; og drykken, som me hev blanda eiter i aat andre, vert eingong uta miskunn bodin fram av rettferds hand aat vaare eigne munnar.
An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913
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