tinsmith
IPA: tˈɪnsmɪθ
noun
- A person who makes or repairs things with tin or similar alloys.
- A dealer in tin goods.
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Examples of "tinsmith" in Sentences
- Enoch was a farmer and tinsmith.
- He was also an able tinsmith and a skilled carpenter.
- He worked as a tinsmith, a coppersmith, and a boilermaker.
- He apprenticed as a tinsmith from age 13 to 20 in England.
- His father was a tinsmith who was active in local politics.
- He was an experienced tinsmith, harness maker and shoemaker.
- The simple shapes made by the tinsmith required only a few basic tools.
- Named for the botanist J.G., from an occupational surname for a tinsmith.
- The tinsmith makes a great variety of tinware for household and farm use.
- He devised equipment for the research with the help of one untrained tinsmith.
- It was easy to see that the tinsmith was a kind hearted man, as well as a merry and agreeable one.
- James likes the tin cup best because he can use it and he spent a lot of time watching the tinsmith those two days.
- A high-school dropout (his father was a tinsmith, his mother a maid), Weiss took boxing lessons before going to night school at City College of New York.
- Lim Huck Chin/Fernando Jorge Examples of the craft of tinsmith Yong Sit Chuan, who was born in the tinsmith workshop that his father founded in the early 1920s.
- The age is wrong, and he appears to have a different wife, but his place of birth and those of his parents are correct, and he was a "tinsmith," just like our Oliver.
- Lim Huck Chin/Fernando Jorge for The Wall Street Journal Some businesses in Malacca have held unyieldingly to their past: Yong Heng Hin, for instance, was founded in the late 1800s and is the oldest functioning tinsmith in Malacca; it is now in fourth-generation hands.
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