He was a sugar refiner.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The instruments required by the refiner were a crucible of furnace and a bellows or blow-pipe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

It is only a refiner, which is a thin-profit business most times, and in the past year, a no-profit business.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seattle Times] Reference

The idea that the trials of Rome shall be as a 'refiner's fire' has a certain grandeur, but the expression of the idea is commonplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal] Reference

"And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.".    From Wordnik.com.  [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference

Paris, to Mr. Dubranfaut, the chemist, to Mr. Grar, a refiner of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

But learning, though a polisher and a refiner, is not the creator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

Thai Oil, the country's largest refiner, is also controlled by PTT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy profile of Thailand] Reference

Lorha a caste which grows hemp, Nunia a salt-refiner, Seth a banker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

College, and some time since melter and refiner of the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference

The private Taiwan refiner also imports significant amounts of crude oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Shuts Formosa Petrochemical Refinery] Reference

Here she married Mr. Lee, a gold refiner, and a man of great moral worth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference

It is a refiner, a cultivator, a subduer of coarseness, barbarity, rudeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference

Valero is now the largest refiner of crude oil in North America, bigger than Exxon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2005] Reference

Chinese oil refiner PetroChina rose 2.4% while its larger rival Sinopec climbed 3.2%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regional Stocks End Higher] Reference

Analysts expect the price rise to help the refiner trim its losses in the coming quarters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Oil Posts Loss] Reference

But another story out today, Valero, that refiner delaying or canceling some big projects.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2008] Reference

Lord will sit as the refiner, and not suffer him to be tried above what he is able to bear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

Before that, Hyundai Heavy and other shareholders had collectively owned a 30% stake in the refiner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hyundai Heavy to Buy Oilbank Stake] Reference

To suggest that a refiner is intentionally limiting production just doesn't pass the economic test.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 7, 2007] Reference

SA tightened its grip on the domestic metals market with a bid to acquire copper refiner and processor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vale Tightens Grip With Copper Bid] Reference

Oil refiner Sinopec rose 5.1% and airline company Cathay Pacific gained 4.4% on lower crude-oil prices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tokyo Stocks Surge] Reference

In Korea, SK Energy was up 2.1% and GS Holdings, the largest shareholder of refiner GS Caltex, added 2.3%.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asia Tech Stocks Up on Apple Gains] Reference

On January 1, Iraq suspended an annual contract with a South Korean refiner, SK Energy, the energy ministry said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Bergmann: NSN Iraq Daily Update 1/29/08] Reference

Sinopec, listed in Hong Kong and Shanghai, is China's second-largest listed oil producer and biggest oil refiner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Workers Rescued From China Oil Platform] Reference

And oil refiner Valero Energy recently announced the nation's first completely wind-powered oil refinery in Sunray, Texas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clint Wilder: Fourth of July: A Long Road Ahead, But Reason to Celebrate] Reference

As crude oil prices have declined, they have been able to grab a larger share of the pump price by increasing refiner margins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Cooper: Record Oil Company Profits: Redistributing Wealth From Consumers to Stockholders] Reference

One refiner, Sunoco, tells us it is shutting its refineries in Philadelphia, though it won't say why and it won't say for how long.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 28, 2008] Reference

Believe it or not, at least (AUDIO GAP) jewelers, who charge a 5 to 15 percent commission, take it to a refiner and have it melted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2009] Reference

refiners and oil importers would also be able to bank and trade credits that could be used in a later year to sell to another refiner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing On Environment] Reference