tinman
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Flies with the "tinman" gene have no heart.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2013
Without the tinman gene, fruit flies cannot grow a heart.
From Slate ● Jul. 9, 2012
He had the tinman cut slits in the end about an eighth of an inch wide and almost twice as deep.
From Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various
I got a tinman to make some dishes, two inches deep, 10×12 inches square, and perpendicular sides.
From Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by Quinby, M. (Moses)
And yet to my fearful perceptions there may be pleasures that cannot exist for the accustomed 129and jaded senses of the tinman.
From Journeys to Bagdad by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
Pedlers and tinmen always took it—and emigrants on their way to the back settlements were invariably told to keep their money to help pay for their land.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Leslie, Eliza
It is in their quarter that you must seek the iron-smiths, the braziers, the plumbers, the tinmen, the founders, the goldsmiths, the jewellers, the machinists, and even the physicians and chemists.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Huc, Évariste Régis
They have no very definite occupation; yet they are oftener tinkers and tinmen than aught else equally legal.
From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Among these are included the tools of carpenters, coopers, gardeners, butchers, glaziers, farriers, saddlers, tinmen, shoemakers, weavers, wheelwrights, as well as corkscrews, sugar-tongs, sugar-nippers, boot-hooks, button-hooks, door-scrapers, calipers, printing-irons, dog-collars, chains, whistles, tinderboxes, and tobacco-stoppers.
From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel
And then he has travelled the roads long enough to be sure that he can get a meal for nothing at any house he stops at, as all the tinmen do.
From My First Cruise and Other stories by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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