tinman
noun
a tinsmith.
tinmen
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pluralof tinman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
