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tinsmith

American  
[tin-smith] / ˈtɪnˌsmɪθ /

noun

  1. a person who makes or repairs tinware or items of other light metals.


tinsmith British  
/ ˈtɪnˌsmɪθ /

noun

  1. a person who works with tin or tin plate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of tinsmith

First recorded in 1805–15; tin + smith


Example Sentences

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He worked for a while as a tinsmith in his father's foundry before moving to Edinburgh to study and then pursue an acting career.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2025

Before entering school at 11, he sold firewood and worked for a local tinsmith.

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2017

He sold firewood as a child and became an apprentice to a tinsmith.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2017

A hard-working, hard-driving Northerner who migrated to St. Louis no later than 1826, Mansfield devoted himself, as Brown claimed, to his work as a tinsmith and building contractor, carrying on his trade on a large scale.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2014

Alf was a jack-of-all-trades, carpenter, tinsmith, blacksmith, electrician, plasterer, scissors grinder, and cobbler.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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