tinmen
- plural of tinman.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
