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
Dinah turned out extremely well, and the Warner family still talk of the night when she was discovered in the cart of the travelling tinman.
From My First Cruise and Other stories by William Henry Giles Kingston
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
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 M. (Moses) Quinby
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
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
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
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
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 Eliza Leslie
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