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
They had a tinsmith make two 18th-century-inspired lightsaber handles and fitted them with green and red taper candles, keeping within the rules.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2017
Before entering school at 11, he sold firewood and worked for a local tinsmith.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2017
A hard-working, hard-driving Northerner who migrated to St. Louis no later than 1826, Mansfield devoted himself, as Brown claimed, to his work as a tinsmith and building contractor, carrying on his trade on a large scale.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2014
Alf was a jack-of-all-trades, carpenter, tinsmith, blacksmith, electrician, plasterer, scissors grinder, and cobbler.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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