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Tinman   Listen
noun
Tinman  n.  (pl. tinmen)  A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tinman" Quotes from Famous Books



... four chairs there, a stove, and two tables. Dane had little literature, but, as he was in the literary line himself, he did not care for this so much; men who write books are not commonly eager to read books which are worse than their own. At a nine-cent window of a neighboring tinman's he was able to buy himself the few little necessities which he wanted for housekeeping. And not to detain the reader too long upon merely fleshly arrangements, in the course of a couple of hours of Tuesday evening and Wednesday evening, he had fitted up his convenient if not pretty bower ...
— The Brick Moon, et. al. • Edward Everett Hale

... national vice, and went to the national dogs, Thomas Fisher, a saving tinman, and a bachelor: so I expect ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... came, but yet he liked to feel that he was not utterly alone in the world. There was the postman coming down the street in his leisurely, old-fashioned way, chatting with the host at the corner and with the tinman two doors off, and then—yes, he was stopping at ...
— Doctor Claudius, A True Story • F. Marion Crawford

... cooper's, the turner's, the cabinet-maker's, even the black ironmonger's and noisy tinman's shop, afforded entertainment for many a morning; a trifling gratuity often purchased much instruction, and Mad. de Rosier always examined the countenance of the workman before she suffered her little pupils to attack him with questions. The eager curiosity ...
— Tales And Novels, Volume 1 • Maria Edgeworth

... tinman went on his way again, she returned to spread the fabulous result before her mother. There were sugars and spices and whatnot. And though—woe worth the day!—she found that the sum yielded only half what once it would, still, by drinking her own tea in its acritude, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 • Various

... Grammar School, under the Rev. Edward Valpy, called by Dr. Knapp "a severe master," by Mr. Walling "a martinet," whose "principal claims to fame," says Mr. Jenkins, "are his severity, his having flogged the conqueror of the 'Flaming Tinman,' and his destruction of the School Records of Admission, which dated back to the sixteenth century." Against this chorus of denunciation, I will quote from a letter the late Dr. Martineau wrote me about Borrow: "It is true that ...
— Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913 • James Hooper



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