Definitions

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

  • noun One that makes and repairs things made of light metal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A worker in tin-plate; a maker of tinware.

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

  • noun One who works in tin; a tinner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a person who makes or repairs things with tin or similar alloys

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who makes or repairs tinware

Etymologies

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tin + smith

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Examples

  • It was easy to see that the tinsmith was a kind hearted man, as well as a merry and agreeable one.

    The Tin Woodman of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1918

  • It was easy to see that the tinsmith was a kind hearted man, as well as a merry and agreeable one.

    The Tin Woodman of Oz 1887

  • The age is wrong, and he appears to have a different wife, but his place of birth and those of his parents are correct, and he was a "tinsmith," just like our Oliver.

    Genealogue Challenge #118 2008

  • He was also an able tinsmith and a skilled carpenter.

    A case of misplaced indignation 2009

  • He was also an able tinsmith and a skilled carpenter.

    Luck, Wealth, and Immigration, David Henderson | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Lim Huck Chin/Fernando Jorge for The Wall Street Journal Some businesses in Malacca have held unyieldingly to their past: Yong Heng Hin, for instance, was founded in the late 1800s and is the oldest functioning tinsmith in Malacca; it is now in fourth-generation hands.

    Scenes From Malacca 2008

  • A high-school dropout (his father was a tinsmith, his mother a maid), Weiss took boxing lessons before going to night school at City College of New York.

    Too Soon Old, Too Late Wise 2008

  • Lim Huck Chin/Fernando Jorge Examples of the craft of tinsmith Yong Sit Chuan, who was born in the tinsmith workshop that his father founded in the early 1920s.

    Scenes From Malacca 2008

  • James likes the tin cup best because he can use it and he spent a lot of time watching the tinsmith those two days.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Herrick Kimball 2005

  • James likes the tin cup best because he can use it and he spent a lot of time watching the tinsmith those two days.

    Great Agrarian Vacations Herrick Kimball 2005

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