Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who shares in a tontine.

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Examples

  • He remembers playing with the children afterwards on the lawn at the back of the lawyer's house, and a battle-royal that he had with a brother tontiner who had kicked his shins.

    The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • He remembers playing with the children afterwards on the lawn at the back of the lawyer’s house, and a battle – royal that he had with a brother tontiner who had kicked his shins.

    The Wrong Box 2004

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