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Tinner   Listen
noun
Tinner  n.  
1.
One who works in a tin mine.
2.
One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Tinner" Quotes from Famous Books



... Papering. The pins come from the tinner in wooden bowls, with the points projecting in all directions: the arranging of them side by side in paper is generally performed by women. (a) A woman takes up some, and places them on a comb, and shaking them, some of the pins fall ...
— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage
... occupied by Union troops. About the last of Jan. 1863, I visited Baltimore and tried to get a situation; I remained in Baltimore about two months, doing nothing. I stopped at Mann's Hotel, that is, I got my meals there, as I wanted them. I stopped part of the time with "Bonis," a tinner, out Fayette street; I used to board with them ...
— Between the Lines - Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After • Henry Bascom Smith
... vas shleeping like a pig—a pig mit his shkin full," he added, "for I vas on my vay home from tinner at ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... ragamuffin, "dat Fader Letheby is going to take Simon Barry into his new choir. Simon is a tinner, and ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan


Words linked to "Tinner" :   tinsmith, smith


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