binner

Noun

binner (plural binners)

1. One who attempts to earn money from what can be recovered from trash bins, as coin-deposit bottles and cans.

Synonyms

• dumpster diver

Noun

binner (plural binners)

1. (Scotland, dialect) A bickering noise.
2. (Scotland, dialect) A state of agitation; flurry.
   • 1915, H. Beaton, Benachie, pages 50, 163:

     Aye, if he wis comin' in his fite claes, bodybulk, I doot ye wid be a' in a binner, as weel's the horses. . . . I kent fin ye wis in sic a binner 'it a' wisna richt.

Verb

binner (third-person singular simple present binners, present participle binnering, simple past and past participle binnered)

1. (Scotland, dialect) To create a bickering noise.
   • 1768, A. Ross, Works (S.T.S.), page 163:

     To see the lambs come binn'ring down the brae.