Crossword clues for tinner
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tinner \Tin"ner\, n.
One who works in a tin mine.
One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.
Wiktionary
n. 1 tinsmith 2 a worker in a tin mine
WordNet
n. someone who makes or repairs tinware [syn: tinsmith]
Wikipedia
Tinner may refer to:
- Friedrich Tinner, a Swiss engineer
- A person involved in tin mining who came under the jurisdiction of the former Stannary Courts and Parliaments
- Another name for a tinsmith
Tinner may also refer to:
- The Tinners, a regiment formed by Nicholas Slanning during the English Civil War
- Tinners rabbits, another name for the three hares motif, and a dance by the same name
- Tinner's fluid, a common name for zinc chloride when used as a flux
Usage examples of "tinner".
Friedrich Tinner, a Swiss mechanical engineer who had been dealing with A.
Marco Tinner, the elder son, officially owned the Traco Company, a Swiss firm that found, outfitted, and sold the sophisticated machinery--high-speed lathes, band saws, and tool grinders--to the Khan network.
Through Urs Tinner, however, we knew that he had collected a warehouse or two of centrifuge parts.
Operatives and analysts handling Tinner met with Kappes and the Libyan team.
Oswald Tinner, the account executive for the American Personal Pharmaceuticals account.
One day I was with him, and we saw a tinner nailing a new leader or tin water-spout to the side of a house.
The tinner had been there all afternoon, trying to find what was the matter with the flue, cutting a new sheet-iron drawer to fit under the stove-pipe.
The moment that quivering passion of hatred and wrong leaped into her voice, he had taken the big shears left by the tinner and cut the insulated wire behind the desk.
Then it suddenly petered out for no apparent reason except, of course, that the tinners had come to the end of the lode in that particular spot.
Two or three centuries of tinners must have worked down here, burrowing down from above and in from the cliffs.
The small tinners could be glimpsed flitting elusively here and there.
His left hand clutched a boryer about the size of a darning-needle, which he was sharpening for one of the tinners, while the other was waiting his turn to have the pick he held in his hand new-steeled.
The hearty wightish tinners, all with their sleeves rolled up, were chipping and hacking away at the lode with their picks.
He recalled hearing something of the affair in church, but it was just as he was taking over his new post as bailiff, and his interest in affairs so far away was not as important as sorting out the tinners on the moors.
Great Britain suffered no interruption, except from some transient tumults among the tinners of Cornwall, who, being provoked by a scarcity of corn, rose in arms and plundered the granaries of that county.