tinsmith
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tinsmith
Example Sentences
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He worked for a while as a tinsmith in his father's foundry before moving to Edinburgh to study and then pursue an acting career.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 2025
Before entering school at 11, he sold firewood and worked for a local tinsmith.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2017
He sold firewood as a child and became an apprentice to a tinsmith.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2017
Classes aren’t in session on this overcast, drizzly day, so the campus’s small grassy yards are empty, the shuttered doors to the tinsmith workshop and masonry store creak in the wind.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2014
Now about fifteen years old—too young to be emancipated under Pennsylvania law—Isaac was apprenticed to a tinsmith, a Philadelphia Quaker.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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