Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: dyer
IPA transcription: [d'aɪɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dyer
    Meaning: someone whose job is to dye cloth
Usage examples
  • Mrs. Dave Dyer snapped, "Honest?
  • Another hour's work would give her sufficient bunches for her purpose, and unless the dyer was as perfidious as Elizabeth, her now purple jacket and skirt would arrive that afternoon.
  • The jacket and skirt had already gone to the dyer's, and would be back in a day or two, white no longer, but of a rich purple hue, and by that time she would have hundreds of these little pink roses ready to be tacked on.
  • "Santiddio! here's a sight!" said the dyer, as soon as he had divined the meaning of the advancing tumult, "and the fools do nothing but hoot. Come along!" he added, snatching his axe from his belt, and running to join the crowd, followed by the butcher and all the rest of his companions, except Goro, who hastily retreated up a narrow passage.