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Renter

RENT'ER, n. One who leases an estate; more generally, the lessee or tenant who takes an estate or tenement on rent.
RENT'ER, v.t. [L. retracho, retrahere; re and traho, to draw.]
1. To fine-draw; to sew together the edges of two pieces of cloth without doubling them, so that the seam is scarcely visible.
2. In tapestry, to work new warp into a piece of damaged tapestry, and on this to restore the original pattern or design.
3. To sew up artfully, as a rent.
renter appears in definitions for these words:
Fineddrawing Ryot

 

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