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- noun Plural form of
tinner .
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Examples
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The two hundred seins and twice two hundred drift-boats belonging to that coast employed at least six thousand fishermen, and of these the greater part, as soon as the fishing season was at an end, either turned "tinners" and went into the mines, where they were unassailable,
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After the jury had been sworn and other preliminaries arranged, the Parliament adjourned to the Stannary towns, where its courts of record were opened for the administration of Justice among the "tinners," the word Stannary being derived from the Latin "Stannum," meaning tin.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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So when she meets Lord Donovan, owner of the tin mill, she confronts him about overworking the tinners.
Heartless Balogh, Mary 1995
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The sheet-metal parts for a smoother and a putty knife are to be cut out with the thinners 'snip and the tinners' through snip.
1. Objectives and Subject Matters of Vocational Training in Shearing Techniques 1990
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- Tinners 'snip, tinners' through snip, hole cutting shear
1. Objectives and Subject Matters of Vocational Training in Shearing Techniques 1990
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For which cuts is the tinners 'through snip employed?
1. Objectives and Subject Matters of Vocational Training in Shearing Techniques 1990
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Of course, in later years some of us turned out to be … They've got the inheritance from my great-grandfather Hufmann, and they've turned out to be carpenters and architects and tinners and what-have-you.
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Page 224, Volume 2 which serve to produce forms, e.g., the forms used by sculptors, potters, tinners, and others.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas W. TATARKIEWICZ 1968
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Iron Mille, Pittsburgh, Pa., for lithograph, etc. Machinists, boiler makers, tinners, and workers of sheet metals read advertisement of the Parker Power Presses.
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But while the tinners had the privilege of digging for tin on any person's land without payment for rent or damage, they were subject to heavy penalties and impositions in other ways, and especially in the case of adulteration of tin with inferior metal.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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