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

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

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

Whene'er the penner of this pome Regards a lovely country home, He sighs, in words not insincere, "I think I'd like to live out here."

From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)

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)

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 The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Swift, Jonathan