Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An itinerant tinker.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A traveling tinker; a tramp; a vagrant; a gipsy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.

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  • noun UK, dialect A travelling tinker; a tramp, or sturdy beggar.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Scottish Gaelic ceard, tinker, smith, from Old Irish cerd, artisan, skill.]

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Irish ceard a tinker.

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