[f. ALINE v. + -ER1.] One who lays out things in lines, or brings them to a straight line.
1693. Evelyn, De la Quint. Compl. Gard. Dict., Aliners are … Men imployed in the abovesaid work of Ranging, or Levelling Rows of Trees, Walls, &c. It were well our English Gard’ners would naturalize those two Words, not being otherwise able to express their signification without a Circumlocution, and having with less necessity naturalized many other forreign terms, without so much as altering their Termination, which in these I have made perfectly English.
