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About 80% of British tin producers will be represented in the price control movement and Se�ior Aramayo's participation is expected to insure support of Bolivian tinmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Lever, Charles James

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

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