tinner

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Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
6

Definition of tinner

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A tinsmith.
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noun

  1. A tinsmith.
  2. A worker in a tin mine.
    “The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record.”
  3. (Cornwall)The pied wagtail.
    “The country-people say that the "tinner," that is the "dishwasher" or water-wagtail, is scarcer than it was before the blizzard, which must have caused the death of tens of thousands of birds. They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts.”

name

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.

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Etymology

From tin + -er.

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