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 One who works in a tin-mine or tin-works.
- noun A tinman or tinsmith.
- 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.'
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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