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Meanings of tinner in English

Portuguese
funileiro
Catalan
llauner
Spanish
hojalatero

Someone who makes or repairs tinware.

        funileiro
        Usage of tinner in English
        1
        Any tinner can make one in a few minutes, at a trifling cost.
        Searchlights on Health: The Science of Eugenics
        2
        He was a tinner by trade, and carried on a large manufacturing establishment.
        Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave
        3
        He turned again to the tinner and said with condescending grimness: I shall take your arm.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        4
        He found the young tinner up there, alone and brooding, and entered into conversation with him.
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        5
        Then he sent me to the tinner's to see if the tin was ready at last.
        The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
        6
        I'd rather drive nails or superintend a tinner.
        A Daughter of the Middle Border
        7
        He had giant tinner snips in one hand and a chunk of airplane in the other.
        The man who ate the 747
        8
        At last it began to leak, and a tinner sent a man around to find the hole.
        Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot
        9
        Wally gave a thumbs-up, then marched out of the barn with his handsaw and giant tinner snips.
        The man who ate the 747
        10
        A drier for footwear can be readily made by a tinner, or anyone that can shape tin and solder.
        The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
        11
        He's a young journeyman tinner who was getting along all right till he fell sick and lost his job.
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        12
        Allen came strolling by where the pair were sitting; stopped, and said to the tinner;
        The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
        13
        But presently they fell to dropping remarks that were evidently aimed at Tracy, and some of them at the tinner.
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        14
        June, 1888, in Terri, Italy, a tinner was killed on the roof of a building on touching an alternating-current circuit.
        The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, Janu...
        15
        Brady is a tinner.
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        16
        O'Reilly felt a pair of reins thrust into his hand and found Hilario examining a large pair of tinner's shears.
        Rainbow's End
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        Translations for tinner
        Catalan
        llauner
        Tinner through the time