TINSMITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tinsmith mean? 

• TINSMITH (noun)
  The noun TINSMITH has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes or repairs tinware

  Familiarity information: TINSMITH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TINSMITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes or repairs tinware

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

tinner; tinsmith

Hypernyms ("tinsmith" is a kind of...):

smith (someone who works at something specified)

 Context examples 

To be sure, there were several patches on him, but the tinsmiths did a good job, and as the Woodman was not a vain man he did not mind the patches at all.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"Oh, yes. Some of us are very good tinsmiths," they told her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Again I went to the tinsmith, and again he made me a leg out of tin.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The tinsmiths looked the Woodman over carefully and then answered that they thought they could mend him so he would be as good as ever.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

But the tinsmith happened to come along, and he made me a new head out of tin.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

So I went to a tinsmith and had him make me a new leg out of tin.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

When they reached the castle Dorothy said to the Winkies: Are any of your people tinsmiths?

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

So Oz brought a pair of tinsmith's shears and cut a small, square hole in the left side of the Tin Woodman's breast.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Now while the tinsmiths had been at work mending the Woodman himself, another of the Winkies, who was a goldsmith, had made an axe-handle of solid gold and fitted it to the Woodman's axe, instead of the old broken handle.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Once more the tinsmith came to my help and made me a body of tin, fastening my tin arms and legs and head to it, by means of joints, so that I could move around as well as ever.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)