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tinsmith

[ tin-smith ]

noun

  1. a person who makes or repairs tinware or items of other light metals.


tinsmith

/ ˈ³Ùɪ²ÔËŒ²õ³¾ÉªÎ¸ /

noun

  1. a person who works with tin or tin plate
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tinsmith1

First recorded in 1805–15; tin + smith
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He worked for a while as a tinsmith in his father's foundry before moving to Edinburgh to study and then pursue an acting career.

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Now about fifteen years old—too young to be emancipated under Pennsylvania law—Isaac was apprenticed to a tinsmith, a Philadelphia Quaker.

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And here is love like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin.

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"Unlike homemade counterparts or local tinsmith's wares, these tools depicted highly stylized images, often drawn from secular themes or with subject's designed specifically to hang on the Christmas trees."

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They rented them to blue-collar workers such as tinsmiths, printers and chauffeurs.

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