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
He found the young tinner up there, alone and brooding, and entered into conversation with him.
From The American Claimant by Twain, Mark
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
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
Among the young were Flossie and Gracie Peanut and their brother Adelbert, who was a rising young journeyman tinner, also Hosannah Dilkins, Jr., journeyman plasterer, just out of his apprenticeship.
From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark
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