tinner

American  

[tin-er] / ˈtɪn ər /

noun

1. a tinsmith.

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tinner British  

/ ˈtɪnə /

noun

1. a tin miner

2. a worker in tin; tinsmith

3. a person or organization that puts food, etc, into tins; canner

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Etymology

Origin of tinner

First recorded in 1505–15; tin + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Chairman of the new bank is to be Louis Charles Kurtz, 62, jocularly called a tinner because he learned that trade in his father's wholesale hardware, plumbing and heating supplies company.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the young were Flossie and Gracie Peanut and their brother Adelbert, who was a rising young journeyman tinner, also Hosannah Dilkins, Jr., journeyman plasterer, just out of his apprenticeship.

From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark

In those days it would appear that the pay of a working tinner was 4s. a week, finding himself.

From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by Scott, C. A. Dawson

All the articles usually made by the tinner also form a branch of their manufactory.

From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Casseday, Ben

None seemed discontented but one, who ran away from a tinner, because he wanted to be a farmer.

From The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them by Brace, Charles Loring