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Definition of Tinner
1. Noun. Someone who makes or repairs tinware.
Definition of Tinner
1. n. One who works in a tin mine.
Definition of Tinner
1. Noun. tinsmith ¹
2. Noun. a worker in a tin mine ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinner
1. a tin miner [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinner
Literary usage of Tinner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Register of the Freemen of the City of York: From the City Records ... 1272-1759 by York (England), Francis Collins (1900)
"Barn, bricklayer, son of Thomas Barn, heckler Thomas Fisher, butcher, son of
Robert Fisher, butcher William Hessey, tinner, son of William Hessey, ..."
2. Popular romances of the west of England; or, The drolls, traditions, and by Robert Hunt (1881)
"&c., was applied to the foreigners who traded with this country for tin at a very
early period. BB (p. 344). TTIE tinner OF ..."
3. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which is Added an by Edward Hyde Clarendon (1826)
"... his lordship with a small cane struck Annesley: this being merrily spoken of
at tinner, at a table where the lord Mountnorris was, [I think, ..."
4. The Travels Through England of Dr. Richard Pococke, Successively Bishop of by Richard Pococke, James Joel Cartwright (1888)
"... which, when the tinner sees rising, he washes over, and preserves the rough
tin in the bottom of the sieve, which is now thrown out into another keeve, ..."
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