Word Meanings - STAINER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who stains or tarnishes. 2. A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.

WORKMANSHIP
1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
WORKMAN
1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
WORKMANLY
Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
WORKMANLIKE
Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
STAINER
1. One who stains or tarnishes. 2. A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.
SUSTAINER
One who, or that which, sustains. Waterland.
DISWORKMANSHIP
Bad workmanship. Heywood.
TUT-WORKMAN
One who does tut-work. Tomlinson.
ABSTAINER
One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.