tinner

[tin-er]

noun

a tinsmith.

Origin of tinner

First recorded in 1505–15; tin + -er¹

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Examples from the Web for tinner

Historical Examples of tinner

Any tinner can make one in a few minutes, at a trifling cost.
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B.G. Jefferis
Have your tinner make you an old-fashioned "tin-kitchen" with sloping sides.
Housekeeping in Old Virginia
Marion Cabell Tyree
Fig. 88a represents a pair of paper shears, 88b a pair of tinner's shears.
Physics
Willis Eugene Tower
Again I went to the tinner, and again he made me a leg out of tin.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
These should be angled by the tinner, and out of them we shall make the frame.
Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets
Various

British Dictionary definitions for tinner

tinner

noun

a tin miner

a worker in tin; tinsmith

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

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