tinker mann.²

1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. i. 5 ‘She [sc. a hare] must have flown!’ observes one... ‘Or yon tinker man's knocked her on the head,’ observes a third, pointing to a gipsy camp.

1855 Nonconformist 21 Feb. Why is the Duke of Cambridge like a wandering mender of kettles and pans?.. Because he was once a tinker man (at Inkermann) [sc. the Battle of Inkermann].

1979 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Dec. 158 On his farm in eighteen hundred and ten [he] heard of great victories from wandering tinkermen.

2016 Daily Mail (Nexis) 26 Sept. He became a patron of the Gipsy Council to counter prejudice against travellers, saying: ‘My grandfather was a travelling tinker man from Cork.’