tinnery

[tin-uh-ree]

noun

plural

tinneries 

1. tinworks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tinnery¹

First recorded in 1760–70; tin + -ery

Example Sentences

Between 2020 and 2022, 13 growers and five other cannabis businesses moved into the ground floor of the Cannery building, as well as into a neighboring building known as the Tinnery.

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Greg Minor, deputy director of Oakland’s Economic and Workforce Development Department, said in an email that after the diesel generators at the Cannery and Tinnery buildings were shut down, “City inspectors visited all known Oakland cultivation sites and successfully shut down roughly ten additional sites.”

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The British Consulate at Boulogne still "hangs out" over the "tinnery, leadery, and zincery," at the end of the port, as we have ascertained by a recent visit.

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