[f. FINE v.3 + -ER1.] One who or that which fines or refines, a refiner.

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1489.  Act 4 Hen. VII., c. 2, Pream. Fynours and parters of golde and silver by fire and water.

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1577.  B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), II. 110. The finers rather desier the coles that are made of the pine tree.

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1647.  Haward, Crown Rev., 23. Chiefe Finer [in the Mint]: Fee, 10l. 0s. 0d.

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1815.  Specif. of Hushet’s Patent, No. 3944. Finers’ iron, or metal of a quality fit for the purposes of the puddling furnace.

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1858.  Bushnell, Serm. New Life, 280. Is it a finer’s fire?

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