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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Painter \Paint"er\ (p[=a]nt"[~e]r), noun [OE, pantere a noose, snare, F. panti['e]re, LL. panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. panqh'ra; pa^s all + qh'r beast; cf. Ir. painteir a net, gin, snare, Gael. painntear.] (Naut.) A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. --Totten.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Painter \Paint"er\, noun [Corrupt. of panther.] (Zo["o]l.) The panther, or puma. [A form representing an illiterate pronunciation, U. S.] --J. F. Cooper.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Painter \Paint"er\, noun [See 1st {Paint}.] One whose occupation is to paint; esp.: (a) One who covers buildings, ships, ironwork, and the like, with paint. (b) An artist who represents objects or scenes in color on a flat surface, as canvas, plaster, or the like.
{Painter's colic}. (Med.) See {Lead colic}, under {Colic}.
{Painter stainer}. (a) A painter of coats of arms. --Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Poonah painting \Poo"nah paint'ing\ [From Poona, in Bombay Province, India.] A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work.
Note: Hence:
{Poonah brush},
{paper},
{painter}, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Puma \Pu"ma\ (p[=u]"m[.a]), noun [Peruv. puma.] (Zo["o]l.) A large American carnivore ({Felis concolor}), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or stripes. Called also {catamount}, {cougar}, {American lion}, {mountain lion}, and {panther} or {painter}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Boat \Boat\ (b[=o]t), noun [OE. boot, bat, AS. b[=a]t; akin to Icel. b[=a]tr, Sw. b[*a]t, Dan. baad, D. & G. boot. Cf. {Bateau}.]
1. A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.
Note: Different kinds of boats have different names; as, canoe, yawl, wherry, pinnace, punt, etc.
2. Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
3. A vehicle, utensil, or dish, somewhat resembling a boat in shape; as, a stone boat; a gravy boat.
Note: Boat is much used either adjectively or in combination; as, boat builder or boatbuilder; boat building or boatbuilding; boat hook or boathook; boathouse; boat keeper or boatkeeper; boat load; boat race; boat racing; boat rowing; boat song; boatlike; boat-shaped.
{Advice boat}. See under {Advice}.
{Boat hook} (Naut.), an iron hook with a point on the back, fixed to a long pole, to pull or push a boat, raft, log, etc. --Totten.
{Boat rope}, a rope for fastening a boat; -- usually called a {painter}.
{In the same boat}, in the same situation or predicament. [Colloq.] --F. W. Newman.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
painter
noun
1: an artist who paints
2: a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint
3: a line that is attached to the bow of a boat and used for tying up (as when docking or towing)
4: large American feline resembling a lion [syn: {cougar}, {puma}, {catamount}, {mountain lion}, {panther}, {Felis concolor}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "painter": Bacon, Bellows, Benton, Botticelli, Boucher, Buffet, Cassatt, Chirico, Constable, Copley, Corot, Correggio, Courbet, Daumier, David, Degas, Delacroix, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Dufy, Eakins, El Greco, Ensor, Feininger, Fra Angelico, Fragonard, Friesz, Gainsborough, Gauguin, Gleizes, Goya, Graves, Greuze, Gris, Grosz, Hals, Hodler, Hogarth, Homer, Hopper, Ingres, Kent, Kirchner, Leger, Leo, Limburg, Lippi, Manet, Mantegna, Marc, Marin, Marquet, Masaccio, Masolino, Masson, Michelangelo, Millet, Mondrian, Monet, Moses, Munch, Murillo, Nolde, Orozco, Ozenfant, Picabia, Picasso, Pissarro, Poussin, Raphael, Redon, Rembrandt, Remington, Riley, Rivera, Romney, Rousseau, Ryder, Sargent, Siberian tiger, Titian, Turner, Vandyke, Whistler, Wood, aquarellist, bobcat, cat-a-mountain, catamount, cheetah, colorist, cougar, de Kooning, historical painter, jaguar, landscapist, leopard, lion, luminarist, luminist, lynx, marine painter, miniaturist, monochromist, mountain lion, ocelot, oil-colorist, panther, pavement artist, polychromist, portrait painter, portraitist, puma, scene painter, scenewright, scenographer, simba, still-life painter, tiger, watercolorist, wildcat
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Painter, VA (town, FIPS 60296) Location: 37.58550 N, 75.78379 W Population (1990): 259 (113 housing units) Area: 1.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 23420
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Painter, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia Population (2000): 246 Housing Units (2000): 117 Land area (2000): 0.633974 sq. miles (1.641985 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.633974 sq. miles (1.641985 sq. km) FIPS code: 60296 Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51 Location: 37.585632 N, 75.783445 W ZIP Codes (1990): 23420 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Painter, VA Painter
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