Home › Words › P › pinerpinerpiner means A surname.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, piner ranks #2,710 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom pine (“languish, grieve”) + -er.nameA surname.An unincorporated community in Kenton County, Kentucky, United States.nounA torturer.An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.Someone who is pining for something.A labourer, especially a turf cutter.Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.e.g.“Then there was Bunny D—, an Aboriginal piner who had been in the camps with Dad and who was famed for his bush skills.” — 2023, Richard Flanagan, Question 7, Knopf, page 152:Someone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).