tinkler

By way of retaliation the youths, when opportunity occurred, would tie the cord of the "tinkler" to the weathercock, and the parish on a stormy night would be startled by the sound of ghostly, fitful ting-tangs.

The Parish Clerk 1892

Now they don't come much more cunning than Mike German, and the old ivory tinkler spotted an opening.

Archive 2007-10-01 Glyn Davies 2007

‘Hark!’ cried the Dodger at this moment, ‘I heard the tinkler.’

Oliver Twist 2007

Now they don't come much more cunning than Mike German, and the old ivory tinkler spotted an opening.

The Black Spot Glyn Davies 2007

And straight he sat down with the tinkler to joke;

King James I and the Tinkler 2000

'By the mass!' quoth the tinkler, 'it's nappy brown ale,

King James I and the Tinkler 2000

Ye wid swear he hid deserted frae some tinkler race

The Barns o' Beneuches 1998

You ought to think shame of such conduct, singing your good-for-nothing street-songs like a tinkler.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

"There's a tinkler wife needin 'a bawbee's-wirth, an' I've socht the shop heich an 'laich for't."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

He lookit like some berfit tinkler wife that had been too, an 'had t'a'in, ower the heid, intil a barrel o' yellow oker; an 'stickin' on his weyst there was ane o 'my winda tickets -- "Just in To-Day."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond