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Meanings of tinman in English
Person who makes and repairs things made of tin or other light metals.
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Examples for "tinsmith"
Examples for "tinsmith"
1
The name rang in her ears as, heavy-hearted, she entered the tinsmith's.
2
The agreement of a tinsmith never again to work at his trade.
3
Arbeely-thetinsmith I told you about-hetells me I must be cautious.
4
I live on Washington Street, west of here, near a tinsmith's shop.
5
I'm taking it for granted that Jack Lamont is your electrical tinsmith.
1
Any tinner can make one in a few minutes, at a trifling cost.
2
He was a tinner by trade, and carried on a large manufacturing establishment.
3
He turned again to the tinner and said with condescending grimness: I shall take your arm.
4
He found the young tinner up there, alone and brooding, and entered into conversation with him.
5
Then he sent me to the tinner's to see if the tin was ready at last.
1
This is the sole surviving "touch" or mark of an American pewterer of the 17th century.
2
Mr. Burgham, the pewterer, is credulous, and, from some whimsical caprice in his nature, is attached to heraldic honours.
3
There is a pewterer, one Cleeve, who some time ago gave one thousand pounds for four very small Dutch pictures.
4
One of these, "The Tournament," described a joust in which figured one Sir Johan de Berghamme, a presumable ancestor of the gratified pewterer.
5
Going home, called at my Lord's for Mr. Sheply, but found him at the Lion with a pewterer, that he had bought pewter to-day of.
1
A whitesmith specializing in acid etching.
2
White: Cheshire Lass, White Lion, Whitesmith, White Honey.
3
The three kinds which appear best adapted to our climate are Crown Bob, Roaring Lion, and Whitesmith.
4
On the street of the whitesmiths in the Gadrobi district, Barathol Mekhar inspected his latest consignment of iron ore.
5
The whole colony did not contain as many masons, carpenters, glaziers, painters, black and whitesmiths, and other mechanics, as I should have required.
1
The tinplate workers broke away from the Ironmongers.
Usage of tinman in English
1
Israel went out, and his sisters followed him, to see the tinman off.
2
You leave the street car, clanking with your bundles like an itinerant tinman.
3
You can easily find a tinman who has seen and can make one.
4
One is the ordinary tinman's solder composed of lead and tin.
5
The tinman was either unable or not very anxious to understand Hester's requisitions.
6
Israel now advanced-"Well ,girls, "saidhe, "what's thee doing at the tinman's cart?
7
His benefactresses' patience becoming exhausted, he left their house, and was apprenticed to a tinman at Chartres.
8
A tinman can fit it properly.
9
Could a tinman have written it?
10
Yes, the tinman's, for a saucepan or two of a size not yet supplied, for which Morris had petitioned.
11
I don't think we should have accomplished much, but for a 'cute idea of Mrs. Wilbur, the tinman's wife.
12
In this soldering process ordinary tinman's solder may be employed; it must be applied very free from dust or oxide.
13
And when the reluctant tinman went on his way again, she returned to spread the fabulous result before her mother.
14
That's how Jack Slack thrashed Boughton, and I myself saw Hooper, the tinman, beat to pieces by the fighting oilman.
15
The tinman sent some little tin dippers no bigger than a thimble, and the children were delighted to see the animals drink.
16
I got a tinman to make some dishes, two inches deep, 10×12 inches square, and perpendicular sides.
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