Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tin miner.
- noun One that makes or deals in tinware; a tinsmith.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A form of gasolene-stove burning a mixture of gasolene-vapor and air as a fuel, fitted specially to heat and melt the solder used by plumbers and other workers in soft metal under the general name of ‘lead.'
- noun One who works in a tin-mine or tin-works.
- noun A tinman or tinsmith.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who works in a tin mine.
- noun One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
tinsmith - noun a worker in a
tin mine
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who makes or repairs tinware
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's probable that Daniel J. Reber, who lived near John and Lydia in 1860, was another son in 1860 he was, like his supposed brother Elias, a "tinner"; he later lived in Kansas.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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It's probable that Daniel J. Reber, who lived near John and Lydia in 1860, was another son in 1860 he was, like his supposed brother Elias, a "tinner"; he later lived in Kansas.
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Yes | No | Report from tinner wrote 7 weeks 2 days ago
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Yes | No | Report from tinner wrote 8 weeks 1 day ago
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Yes | No | Report from tinner wrote 7 weeks 3 days ago
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Yes | No | Report from tinner wrote 7 weeks 1 day ago
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Yes | No | Report from tinner wrote 7 weeks 4 days ago
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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So that essentially means a millwright or any other trade, in order to finish a job, could do the work of an electrician, or tinner or hvac?
The Truth Revealed! 2008
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I would love to pronounce the Bradley effect dead, but before doing so I think it would be prudent to examine the disparity between between the wide margins in North Carolina and Virginia Senate races as compared to much tinner margins for Obama.
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A decapitated body, a missing tinner, a disgruntled band of miners and a mad Saxon.
Archive 2007-01-01 Carla 2007
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