stainer
(ˈsteɪnə(r))
Forms: 4–6 steynour, 5 staynour, stener, stenyoure, 6 steyner, 6–7 stayner, 6– stainer.
[agent-n. f. stain v.: see -or 2 b, -er1.]
1. One whose employment is staining; one who colours wood, etc. with pigments which penetrate below the surface; † a worker of ‘stained cloths’ (see stained ppl. a. 2). See also Painter-Stainer, paper-stainer.
| 1388 Wyclif Exod. xxxv. 35 That thei make the werkis of carpenter, of steynour [Vulg. polymitarii], and of broiderere. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 81 Peyntour, steynour, mason, nor carpentere. 1471 Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 131 John Sutton, Goldsmyth, and John Body, Staynour. 1489 Acc. in Sharp Cov. Myst. (1825) 196 Paid to the stener ffor workemanship ther-off [buckram for standards], x s. viij d. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vii. 364 The tayllours helde y⊇ craft of stayners. 1538 Elyot Dict., Rhyparographus, a paynter of tryfles, a Stayner. 1589 Lodge Scillaes Metam. Ep. Ded., From the shop of the Painter, shee is falne into the hands of the stainer. 1712 Lond. Gaz. No. 5018/4 All Printers, Painters and Stainers of Paper. Ibid. No. 5025/2 Silks, Callicoes, Linens and Stuffs which shall..be in the Possession of any private Painter, Stainer or Dyer to be printed. |
2. One who or something which stains or calumniates.
| 1647 J. Norris (title) A Lash for a Lyar; Or, The Stayner Stayned, Being An Answer to a false and scandalous Pamphlet. |
3. A tincture of colouring matter used in staining.
| 1891 in Century Dict. |
Hence † ˈstaineress, a female stainer.
| c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf. Manhode iii. xxvii. (1869) 150 Þis hand is a steynowresse of corteynes and a makere. [A mistranslation; the orig. has estendresse stretcher.] |