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Renter   /rˈɛntər/   Listen
noun
Renter  n.  One who rents or leases an estate; usually said of a lessee or tenant.


verb
Renter  v. t.  (past & past part. rentered; pres. part. rentering)  
1.
To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
2.
To restore the original design of, by working in new warp; said with reference to tapestry.





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"Renter" Quotes from Famous Books



... to give him a sleepless night so I said nothing; but I couldn't help thinking how easy it would have been for that poorly-paid, humpbacked clerk to make a duplicate of that key before he delivered it to the renter of that box. With such a duplicate, the clerk could have made that man penniless within a few minutes after he had left the building. The great steel door and the electrical and mechanical contrivances ...
— Fundamentals of Prosperity - What They Are and Whence They Come • Roger W. Babson
... L7 and L8 will be found the usual prices; and we should be glad to know what English farmer would give upwards of one acre three roods of his best land, well tilled and highly manured, at such a price, the renter only holding it for one crop, and paying no taxes whatever. The average produce per acre of good con-acre will be, at least, twenty tons of eating or marketable potatoes, independent of a large quantity ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 • Various
... in demand and can have their choice of farms. A prosperous-looking man was pointed out recently as an example of a tenant capable of buying a farm in one of the most highly developed counties in the United States. It was stated that as a renter he could have his choice of any farm in the county, but that he did not have a dollar invested in farm land. Possibly he invests his surplus earnings in ...
— The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know • Thomas Forsyth Hunt
... What was the use of his studies in farming practise, if he was always to be an underling whose sole duty was to carry out the crude ideas of his employers? And what chance was there for a farm-hand to become a farm owner, or even a farm renter, especially if he had a mother to support out of the twenty-five or thirty dollars ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick
... the poverty. It was the last of February. Soon they must leave the tiny house of three rooms and the farm, for another renter stood ready to take possession. There would be nothing to take with them but their clothing and their scant household furniture, for the farm rent and the sickness had swallowed up the crop, the farming implements, ...
— The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys • Gulielma Zollinger


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