A person who mines surface deposits of tin.
local residents told of a tin scratcher who had made a living on the mountain
Example sentencesExamples
- A tin-scratcher reached for the billy-can. "You boys must be hungry," he remarked agreeably.
- The tin scratcher's face looked peculiarly wooden.
- I had been this way on the mail boat in 1970 and remembered dropping off supplies at a tin scratcher's camp called Roonga.
- A 61 year old part-time tin scratcher and horse-breaker was asked to teach a few miscreant youths how to ride one weekend.
- A drover come past on his way to Flora Valley to pick up a mob so I hitched a ride with him and left those alky tin-scratchers to it.