tinner
/ˈtɪnər/
noun
- A person who works with tin, especially one who makes or repairs tin items; a tinsmith.
- The old tinner used a special hammer to shape the tin into decorative patterns.
- My uncle was a tinner and could fix any metal roof in town.
- The tinner crafted a beautiful set of tin cups for the fair.
- A worker in a tin mine or tin processing plant.
- The tinner loaded the ore onto carts to be taken to the smelter.
- Generations of his family had worked as tinners in the Cornish mines.
- Life was hard for a tinner in the 19th century, with long hours underground.
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