Mr. Fixit

Usage examples of repairer.

A tinker was a solderer and repairer of kettles, pots, and other such household metalware, the name of the profession coming from the tink-tink of a small hammer against the utensil.

For in this Sacrament Thou hast bestowed many good things and still bestowest them continually on Thine elect who communicate devoutly, O my God, Lifter up of my soul, Repairer of human infirmity, and Giver of all inward consolation.

This was, in point of fact, the horn of Mirza Saeed's Mercedes-Benz station wagon, which he had driven at high speed through the suffocating side gullies of the suburb, bringing down racks of shirts hanging on rails, and pumpkin barrows, and trays of cheap plastic notions, until he reached the street of basket--workers that intersected the street of bicycle repairers just to the north of the barricade.

The armor was still on the stand and the repairers took armor, stand, and all, laying it on the couch where they wrapped it in the covers they had brought for the purpose.

Jennings took him by the collar and held him as the repairers went out, loaded the armor on the wagon, and drove off.

Meanwhile, the armor repairers had stopped at last at this apparently deserted house, a strange sort of repair shop.

Reynolds, himself almost as cold as the girl, had readily agreed and the watchman's hut, surrounded by the granite setts, chips and tar barrels of road repairers who had vanished with the onset of the cold weather, had seemed an ideal place.

What with those and the damage that the U-boat did to us - rather, the damage we inflicted on ourselves - there's going to be a fair old job for the ship repairers when we get into dry dock.