Crossword clues for tinsmith
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tinsmith \Tin"smith`\, n. One who works in tin; a tinner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. a person who makes or repairs things with tin or similar alloys
WordNet
n. someone who makes or repairs tinware [syn: tinner]
Wikipedia
A tinsmith, sometimes known as a whitesmith, tinner, tinker, tinman, or tinplate worker is a person who makes and repairs things made of tinware, or other light metals. By extension it can also refer to the person who deals in tinware, or tin plate.
A whitesmith may work with tin, pewter, or other materials. Unlike blacksmiths (who work mostly with hot metal), tinsmiths do the majority of their work on cold metal (although they might use a hearth to heat and help shape their raw materials). The term is also applied to metalworkers who do only finishing work – such as filing or polishing – on iron and other "black" metals. Whitesmiths fabricate items such as tin or pewter cups, water pitchers, forks, spoons, and candle holders and it was a common occupation in pre-industrial times.
Usage examples of "tinsmith".
Fan Importer, a Glass Beveller, a Hotel Broker, an Insect Exterminator, a Junk Dealer, a Kalsomine Manufacturer, a Laundryman, a Mausoleum Architect, a Nurse, an Oculist, a Paper-Hanger, a Quilt Designer, a Roofer, a Ship Plumber, a Tinsmith, an Undertaker, a Veterinarian, a Wig Maker, an X-ray apparatus manufacturer, a Yeast producer, or a Zinc Spelter.
Well, let me put the answer this way: Big John Tinsmith is an Olympian, with all that that implies.
There were rabid cheers, and Tinsmith knew they had announced the name of the homeworld champion.
He was humanoid enough so that Tinsmith could see the awful tension and concentration painted vividly on his already-sweating face.
And every single one of them, Tinsmith knew, human and nonhuman alike, was asking himself the same question: Could this be the day?
And there the margin stayed, as first the Emran and then, more than twenty seconds later, Tinsmith hit the far turn.
So, he said, you went to a tinsmith and had him make you a new leg of tin.
But, so Baum said, the tinsmith happened to come along, and he made you a new head out of tin!
Afterwards I remembered that he was the tinsmith, and Jemima stayed to chat with him for a few minutes, but Rubens and I strolled on.
I waved mine, and then Jemima, having parted with the tinsmith, came up, and we went home.
Jemima, and she married to Jim Espin the tinsmith this six months past.
Mary waited until her fellow inmates were drunk and distracted and then she bribed a turnkey to have a tinsmith visit her.
Mary then told the tinsmith to fashion from each band a metal talon, sharpened to a point and arched, an inch beyond the extremity of each finger, to give the effect of four vicious nails.
The tinsmith delivered them the next day, demanding an extortionate price in return for his speedy workmanship.
The final meeting with the tinsmith had taken place in the morning before eight of the clock while her cell mates still slept, snoring and blubbering and often shouting in some nightmarish dream, unaware of her newfound protection.