Definition: Painter
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- An artist who paints pictures.
- A laborer or workman who paints surfaces using a paintbrush or other means.
- (nautical) A rope connected to the bow of a boat, used to attach it to, e.g. a jetty or another boat.
- 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- `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.
- 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- A mountain lion, by mispronunciation of "panther"
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