tanner
n. countable C2 Proficiency US //ˈtænɝ// UK //tˈænɐ// tan·ner
n. a person whose job is to turn animal skins into leather. You might also hear it as slang for a five-cent coin in the US.
n. a worker who prepares animal hides for use as leather. In North American informal usage, it refers to a five-cent coin.
The tanner works with wet animal skins.
He handed the shopkeeper a tanner for the loose change.
The ancient tanner used oak bark and alum to cure the hides, a process that required both patience and precise chemical knowledge.