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
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 David Christie Murray
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
Bood look here, dot vos a goot tinner: und I enshoy him mooch pecause I shall nod ged anoder dill I go pack to mein old vomans.
From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by W. Boucher
My three associates in this work were a tinner, a clothing salesman and a cabinet maker.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
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