Meaning & use
Penner
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Chiefly British dialect (especially northern English and Scots): a case for holding pens or pencils.
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He kept his fountain pen and spare nibs in a leather penner.
Schoolchildren once carried a wooden penner instead of a plastic pencil case.
A note on using this word
An older dialect term that has largely been replaced by 'pencil case' in standard English.
Words with a similar meaning
pencil case
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