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单词 tinner
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tinnern.

Brit. /ˈtɪnə/, U.S. /ˈtɪnər/
Forms: Middle English tennere, Middle English tinier, Middle English tinnere, Middle English tynnare, Middle English tynnere, Middle English tynnour, Middle English–1600s tynner, 1500s– tinner.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: tin n., tin v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: Partly (originally) < tin n. + -er suffix1, and partly (in sense 4) < tin v. + -er suffix1. Compare German †Zinner tinsmith (15th cent. or earlier). With sense 1 compare tinker n.1 and the discussion at that entry.With the form tynnour compare -our suffix. With the form tinier compare -ier suffix. In sense 3 probably with reference to the bird's habit of nesting in and around man-made structures, which in Cornwall are often tin-mines (compare quot. 1904).
1. A person who makes and repairs tin articles; a tinsmith.Recorded earliest as a surname.
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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.
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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!
3. English regional (Cornwall). The pied wagtail, Motacilla alba yarrellii. Obsolete.
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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.
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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).
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