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
My three associates in this work were a tinner, a clothing salesman and a cabinet maker.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin
"Recklar tinner?" he queried, in his best Delmonico.
From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin
Valentine looked through the window and saw that it was the journeyman tinner unloading.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
You'd petter coom down in de wasser, Vhere deres heaps of dings to see, Und hafe a shplendid tinner Und drafel along mit me.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
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