the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who works in a tin mine.
n. One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A form of gasolene-stove burning a mixture of gasolene-vapor and air as a fuel, fitted specially to heat and melt the solder used by plumbers and other workers in soft metal under the general name of ‘lead.'
n. One who works in a tin-mine or tin-works.
n. A tinman or tinsmith.
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n. someone who makes or repairs tinware
Word Usage
"It's probable that Daniel J. Reber, who lived near John and Lydia in 1860, was another son in 1860 he was, like his supposed brother Elias, a "tinner"; he later lived in Kansas."