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Tinman

Tinman \Tin"man\, n.; pl. Tinmen. A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tinman

"tinsmith," 1610s, from tin (n.) + man (n.).

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tinman

Etymology 1 n. 1 A maker of tinware. 2 A dealer in tinware. Etymology 2

n. (context genetics English) A master gene in the fruit fly ''Drosophila melanogaster'', whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart.

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Tinman

Paul Dakeyne (born 30 January 1963), known by his stage name Tinman, is a British house music producer/ remixer. In 1994, his single " Eighteen Strings" also written as "18 Strings", became an international club hit. It is rumored that the original bootleg recording of "Eighteen Strings" contained a sample of the riff from " Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana, and that the usage of the sample was disallowed, therefore the guitar riff in "Eighteen Strings" was reproduced for commercial release. However, the riff from the bootleg recording and the riff contained in the commercial release of "Eighteen Strings" were both produced by Dakeyne. The song was a Top 10 hit in the UK Singles Chart.

Usage examples of "tinman".

Martin Tinman quivered for speech, probably for that which feedeth speech, as is the way with angry men.

Was there not Eugene, billeted at the Tinman's, cultivating, pipe in mouth, a garden four feet square, for the Tinman, in the little court, behind the shop, and extorting the fruits of the earth from the same, on his knees, with the sweat of his brow?

And a few canny Tinmen got caught trying to skirt it just close enough to catch a few of the bennies before it all imploded.