tinman
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tinmen
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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
Having finished his apprenticeship, he obtained occupation in London as a journeyman tinman.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
By p. 40seven o’clock we were all afoot again, the baker journeying to Hamburg, the tinman and I road-companions to Lübeck.
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie
Educated in the village school, he was apprenticed to a tinman against whose harsh treatment he frequently rebelled.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
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 Évariste Régis Huc
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 R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
Of Terence Driscolls there were seventeen, but all in trade,—tanners, tinmen, last-makers, wharfingers, and so on; not one upon whom Davis could fix the likelihood of the correspondence with the Viscount.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
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 Samuel Sidney
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