painter

Plural

painters

1. 1.An artist who paints pictures.

2. 2.A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.

3. 3.A rope that is attached to the bow of a dinghy, or other small boat, and used for tying up or towing.

   • Back at the water’s edge, Delbert realised something else. The number of steps had diminished by one, and the little boat was floating more freely to its painter.
   • "Shove that [fat, wicker luncheon-basket] under your feet," he observed to the Mole, as he passed it down into the boat. Then he untied the painter and took the sculls again.

4. 4.A mountain lion.

   • I have fou't most of the creatur's of the forest, such as bears, wolves, painters and catamounts, but this is the beginning with the red-skins.

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