penner

¹ American  

[pen-er] / ˈpɛn ər /

noun

1. a person whose task is to herd cattle, sheep, etc., into a pen, often preparatory to a procedure such as branding or shearing.

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penner ² American  

[pen-er] / ˈpɛn ər /

noun

1. a person who pens or writes something; author or composer (of a specified text).

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Example Sentences

Notaries and scriveners add to the girdle a penner, or pen-case, and a stoppered ink-bottle.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various

He now became “an author of playes and a penner of love-pamphlets, so that I soone grew famous in that qualitie, that who for that trade growne so ordinary about London as Robin Greene?”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

Early in life he became, as he tells us, "an author of playes and a penner of love pamphlets."

From History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan

They were large brown nuts or seeds, and hanging from his girdle with his penner and inkhorn they clashed when he walked.

From Puck of Pook’s Hill by Rackham, Arthur

The two points in that pamphlet, which it is said the prosecutors intend chiefly to fix on, are, first, where the author mentions the penner of the King’s answer.

From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by Daly, J. Bowles (John Bowles)