piner

A torturer.

An animal or creature starving or suffering from a wasting disease.

Someone who is pining for something.

A labourer, especially a turf cutter.

Someone who fells Huon pine trees; a logger, someone involved in the Huon timber trade.

Then there was Bunny D—, an Aboriginal piner who had been in the camps with Dad and who was famed for his bush skills.

Someone who lives in a region where pine trees grow; a pinelander.