renter

Meanings

Noun

• One who rents property or other goods from another.
• One who owns or controls property and rents that property to another.
• Synonym of rent boy

Verb

• To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.
• To restore the original design of (a tapestry) by working in new warp.

Origin

• rent + -er
• From French rentraire; Latin prefix re- + in + trahere.