coiner
(ˈkɔɪnə(r))
Also 5 coynowre, quyner, 6 coynar, 6–8 -er, 7 quoyner.
[f. coin v. + -er1.]
1. One who coins money; a minter.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 90 Coynowre or coynesmytare, nummularius. 1496 Dives & Paup. (W. de W.) i. xxii. 58/1 Some ben monyours or moneye quyners. 1590 Greene Mourn. Garm. (1616) Pref. 4 Diogenes of a coyner of money became a Corrector of manners. 1702 Addison Dial. Medals i. 29 Designs that never entered into the thoughts of the sculptor or the Coiner. 1861 Dickens Gt. Expect. xxxii, A Coiner, a very good workman. |
| fig. 1838 Dickens Nich. Nick. x, The..longest-headed, queerest-tempered old coiner of gold and silver ever was. |
2. esp. A maker of counterfeit coin.
| 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 121 You ought..no more to bee agrieued with that whiche I haue saide, then the Mint Maister..to see the coyner hanged. 1611 Shakes. Cymb. ii. v. 5 Some Coyner with his Tooles Made me a counterfeit. 1751 Johnson Rambler No. 161 ¶9 He found the tools of a coiner. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 657 With precautions resembling those employed by coiners and forgers. |
3. fig. An inventor; a deliberate or artful fabricator.
Cf. coin v. 5.
| 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 480 b, As though he and a few others were the first devisours and coyners of this Gospell. 1605 Camden Rem. 27 A Greeke coyner of Etymologyes. 1718 F. Hutchinson Witchcraft Ded. 11 Coiners of Fables. 1824 D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1858) III. 44 Swift..was a ready coiner of such rhyming and ludicrous proverbs. |
† b. ? A dissembler, false pretender.
Obs. rare.
| 1634 S. R. Noble Soldier iv. i. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 307 Thinke you me a quoyner? No, no, thou art thy selfe still, Noble Baltazar. |