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

He was a tinner by trade, and carried on a large manufacturing establishment.

From The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave by Brown, William Wells

The blacksmith's hammer, the tinner, the carpenter, and the weaver's shuttle, plying by the ingenuity of Indians, at which place there are several hundred in the employ of Capt.

From The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources by Frémont, John Charles

You'd petter coom down in de wasser,     Vhere dere's heaps of dings to see, Und hafe a shplendid tinner     Und drafel along mit me.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Darco had an unfailing formula with his landladies: 'Prek-fasd for three, lunge for three, tinner for three; petrooms and zidding-room for two,' He worked for three and ate for two.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie