tinner
Americannoun
noun
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a tin miner
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a worker in tin; tinsmith
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a person or organization that puts food, etc, into tins; canner
Etymology
Origin of tinner
Example Sentences
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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
At last it began to leak, and a tinner sent a man around to find the hole.
From Elbow-Room A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark
June, 1888, in Terri, Italy, a tinner was killed on the roof of a building on touching an alternating-current circuit.
From The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 by Various
I stopped part of the time with "Bonis," a tinner, out Fayette street; I used to board with them before the war.
From Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After by Henry Bascom Smith
Allen came strolling by where the pair were sitting; stopped, and said to the tinner; "How are you off for friends, these days?"
From The American Claimant by Mark Twain
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