worker+in+tin

  • 11crib tin — crib tin, (in Australia and New Zealand) a container in which a worker carries his lunch to work …

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  • 12tinker — tinkerer, n. /ting keuhr/, n. 1. a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant. 2. an unskillful or clumsy worker; bungler. 3. a person skilled in various minor kinds of mechanical work; jack of all trades. 4. an act or instance of… …

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  • 13Death Duel — Film poster Traditional 三少爺的劍 Simplified …

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  • 14tinker — [13] Etymologically, a tinker is probably a ‘worker in tin’. It could well be descended from an unrecorded Old English *tinecere, a plausible derivative of tin. There is an alternative possibility, however: it may have been derived from the now… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 15tinker — [13] Etymologically, a tinker is probably a ‘worker in tin’. It could well be descended from an unrecorded Old English *tinecere, a plausible derivative of tin. There is an alternative possibility, however: it may have been derived from the now… …

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  • 16tinsmith — n. a worker in tin and tin plate …

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  • 17Tinker —    1) A worker with tin, often nomadic. The profession goes back many centuries in Europe. There are references to persons with the surname or trade of tinker in England from around 1175. In 1551 1552 the Act for Tinkers and Pedlars was passed in …

    Historical dictionary of the Gypsies

  • 18tinsmith — n. Tinner, tinman, worker in tin …

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  • 19tinker — /ˈtɪŋkə / (say tingkuh) noun 1. (formerly) a mender of pots, kettles, pans, etc., usually an itinerant. 2. an act or instance of tinkering: to have a tinker. 3. a small species of mackerel, Pneumatophorus grex, of the Atlantic coast of the US.… …

  • 20whitesmith — n. 1 a worker in tin. 2 a polisher or finisher of metal goods …

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