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
A white woman in the tinsmith shop read him the story of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” and Mr. Abrahams began to read at age 9.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 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
These were the cottages in which the servants lived, and where the blacksmith, tinsmith, and tanner plied their trades.
From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood
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