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noun

Tinker n.

A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. "Tailors and tinkers."

One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

(Ordnance) A small mortar on the end of a staff.

(Zool.)

(a)

A young mackerel about two years old.

(b)

The chub mackerel.

(c)

The silversides.

(d)

A skate. (Prov. Eng.)

(Zool.) The razor-billed auk.

verb

Tinker v. t. (past & past part. tinkered; pres. part. tinkering) To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.

Tinker v. i. To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.

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Etymology of 'Tinker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tinker" Quotes from Famous Books

... who is dressed up as "My lord," for whom the play had been prepared. (In the writer's possession there is a very curious and absolutely unique masonic painting revealing "on the square" that the drunken tinker is Shakspeare and ...

— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence

... it not unfrequently happens that a tinker or coal- heaver hears a sermon or falls in with a tract which alarms him about the state of his soul. If he be a man of excitable nerves and strong imagination, he thinks himself given over to the Evil Power. He doubts ...

— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... dear! its ma is making patty-cakes; and put it up there to be out of the way of Tom Tinker's dog. I'll soon hush it up," said the old woman; and, trotting it on her knee, she began ...

— Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. • Louisa M. Alcott

... M was a miser, and hoarded up gold: N was a nobleman, gallant and bold; O was an oyster girl, and went about town; P was a parson, and wore a black gown; Q was a queen, who wore a silk slip; R was a robber, and wanted a whip; S was a sailor, and spent all he got; T was a tinker, and mended a pot; U was an usurer, a miserable elf; V was a vintner, who drank all himself; W was a watchman, and guarded the door; X was expensive, and so became poor; Y was a youth, that did not love school; Z was a Zany, ...

— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole

... more remarkable than the play itself: a drunken tinker, removed in his sleep to a palace, where he is deceived into the belief of being a nobleman. The invention, however, is not Shakspeare's. Holberg has handled the same subject in a masterly manner, and with inimitable truth; but he has spun it out to five acts, for which such material ...

— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black

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