单词 | tinner |
释义 | tinnern. 1. A person who makes and repairs tin articles; a tinsmith.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > workers with tin whitesmith1260 tinner1272 tin-worker1610 tinman1611 white-iron smith1711 white iron man1765 whitster1823 tinsmith1858 1272 Patent Roll, 56 Henry III 30 July (P.R.O.: C 66/90) m. 10 dorso Consimilas litteras habet Alex' le Tinnere Mercator de sancto Edmundo. a1450 Chancery Petitions (P.R.O.) Ser. CP1 File 12 No. 202 (MED) John Nansederne..Tynner..hys tynwerk entryd, brake, & maynvryd. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Estaingnier, a Pewterer, a Tinner. 1793 J. Towers Hist. Philip Waldegrave II. xxviii. 134 She repeatedly proposed to him the trade of a tinner or tin-man, or a man that made kitchen-ware and lanthorns. 1890 Internat. Ann. Anthonys Photogr. Bull. 45 Have made for you at any tinner's, a tin pan about an inch larger all around than your toning tray. 1935 Daily Mail (Hull) 25 Oct. 6/3 The two men were working in the tinner's shop when an oil container burst into flames. 2001 C. H. Wendel Encycl. Antique Tools & Machinery 244/2 Numerous kinds of hand and bench punches are available to the tinner today as they have been for a century. 2. Esp. in or with reference to Devon and Cornwall: a person who digs or prospects for tin; a tin miner. Now historical.In quot. 1357: the owner of a tin mine.Recorded earliest as a surname. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > one who mines metals > tin-miner tinner1357 spalliard1625 tin-miner1899 1357 in M. C. B. Dawes Reg. Black Prince (1931) II. 110 [Petition from] Abraham le Tynnere of Cornewaille [shewing that he has six places proper for digging tin..and has worked therein all his life without contradiction until he was recently removed therefrom and put in prison]. 1512 Act 4 Henry VIII c. 8 §2 in Statutes of Realm (1963) III. 54 All other Tynners..dyggyng of Tyn in the severall Soyle of the said Richard. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 8v Where the finding of these affordeth a tempting likelihood, the Tynners goe to worke. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 2100 The ancient Tinners..affirm, that 7 Loads may lie parallel to each other in the same Hill, but yet one only Master-Load. 1743 J. Wesley Jrnl. (1903) 147 Nine or ten miles east of St. Ives, where we found two or three hundred tinners. 1883 Leisure Hour Dec. 733/2 In Cornwall, the second Monday before Christmas is a festival kept by the tinners. 1930 Devon & Exeter Daily Gaz. 26 June 4/5 The tinners..carried on their search for metal for centuries, the traces of their work being still visible. 2000 Cornish World Oct. 7/3 The tinners were granted the right to administer the law (Stannary Law) in their Stannary Courts, which is today still a function of the County Court in Truro! ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Motacillidae > genus Motacilla > motacilla alba (pied wagtail) washerc1325 washstarta1400 wevesterte14.. water swallow1544 dishwasher1575 water-wagtail1593 dishwater1674 seed bird1675 pied wagtail1744 willy wagtail1780 washerwoman1817 wash-dish1825 moll-washer1847 deviling1853 devil's bird1853 tinner1866 peggy1885 1866 Cornish Tel. 23 May 2/6 Trifles (From our Funny Correspondent). What birds find it impossible to feather their nests?—Tinners, (the local name for wagtails). 1887 Folk-lore Jrnl. 5 187 A water-wagtail, in Cornwall a ‘tinner’, perching on a window-sill, is the sign of a visit from a stranger. 1904 Athenæum 4 June 274/3 The pied wagtail..known [at Land's End] as the ‘tinner’, because it builds its nest in the mouth of old mine-shafts. 4. A person who, or company which, tins food. Now usually with modifier specifying the food which is tinned. Cf. canner n. 1a.Not used in North America. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by canning > one who canner1869 tinner1882 1882 Belfast News-let. 1 Sept. 7/3 Sometimes bad food is tinned by unscrupulous tinners or canners. 1906 Referee 26 Aug. 9/2 Then down with the kickshaws that all taste alike, And the stock of cold storer and tinner. 2008 Sunday Independent (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 30 Nov. (Life section) 32 Neither the..grape pickers nor the tomato tinners hold the key to solving the controversy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1272 |
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