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Coiner

noun

A maker of counterfeit coins.

Someone who is a source of new words or new expressions.

A skilled worker who coins or stamps money. Synonyms: minter, moneyer.

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"Coiner" Quotes from Famous Books

... have nothing bad to conceal needn't be afraid of speaking out," retorted Miss Greeb tartly. "And the way in which Mr. Berwin lives is enough to make one think him a coiner, or a thief, or even ...

— The Silent House • Fergus Hume

... these questions were not considered satisfactory, they next endeavoured to sharpen his wits by torturing a German coiner in his presence; and when this mode of persuasion failed, they tortured Augusta himself. They stripped him naked. They stretched him face downwards on a ladder. They smeared his hips with boiling pitch. They set the spluttering mess on fire, and drew it off, skin and all, with a pair ...

— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton

... all bastards; And that most venerable man, which I Did call my father, was I know not where When I was stamped. Some coiner with his tools Made me a counterfeit; yet my mother seemed The Dian of that time; so doth my wife The nonpareil of this—O vengeance, vengeance! Me of my lawful pleasure she restrained And prayed me, oft, forbearance; did it with A pudency so rosy, the sweet view on't Might well have ...

— Books and Characters - French and English • Lytton Strachey

Words linked to "Coiner" : Great Britain, author, trained worker, source, UK, counterfeiter, generator, Britain, coin, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, skilled workman, United Kingdom, forger, U.K., minter, skilled worker