Someone who is employed to repair broken things

Usage examples of tinker.

Here am I with a pack of villains on my hands and no way to convict them of tinkering with the water adjutages, let alone treason!

Tinker dragged to Aum Renau and kept there for three weeks allowed Tinker to strengthen her body, build a strong relationship with Pony, and learn skills she needed to kill Lord Tomtom, the leader of the oni.

Miss Mannering did not think the spirits other benefactress would be elevated by the revelation that a certain ambitious tinker intended blackmail.

For a while his mind left the bewildering cascade of events that had occurred since the day Tirilen had led him down the steep road from the Castle to look at the strange tinker on the village green.

And his doctors tinkered with parts of the caudate region, trying to ensure that Bobby did not suffer from symptoms relating to obsessive-compulsive disorder which led some people to a need for excessive security, order, predictability and ritual, a need in some circumstances satisfied by the membership of religious communities.

The next comber broomed the sea clean and came aboard and grabbed his legs from under him, dragged him against the bowsprit housing, then sucked him back along the deck, Tinker fighting for control again.

When she saw Dobie inside, tinkering with some part on the tractor, she hesitated.

The easy access of a Ditto to his entire under-pinning -- unlike ourselves, with much of our personality lying in our subconscious and not consciously fixable --implies constant change, personality tinkering, perhaps worse.

Tinker asserted his, with the result that his bolt into the Salles de Jeu and his difficult extrication from them by the brawny, but liveried officials was fast becoming one of the events of the day.

On the eve of their departure for Arcachon, Tinker and Elsie were sitting in the gardens of the Temple of Fortune, taking a well-earned rest after a farewell bolt into the Salles de Jeu, in which Elsie also had played a gallant and successful part, for the somewhat obscure reason that it was the last bolt: so strengthening to her character had been companionship with Tinker.

Would he let Tinker Furris get away with crime in order to keep Konk Zitz lulled?

Cliff and Tinker had just returned from dinner, to find Konk holding court with a couple of his thugs.

OUT in the darkness of an alleyway behind the Phoenix Hotel, Cliff and Tinker waited for a full fifteen minutes before Konk Zitz joined them.

Cliff and Tinker were in the back seat of the sedan, so Konk dropped the bag beside him in the front.

With Konk close in back of him, Tinker marched Cliff out through the back door and past the empty house.