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tinner

tinner noun: a tinsmith.

Noun

tinner (plural tinners)

  1. A tinsmith.
  2. A worker in a tin mine.
    • The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record.1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
  3. (Cornwall) The pied wagtail.
    • The country-people say that the "tinner," that is the "dishwasher" or water-wagtail, is scarcer than it was before the blizzard, which must have caused the death of tens of thousands of birds. They call it the tinner, because it builds its nest in the mouth of the old mine-shafts.2022, John Coulson Tregarthen, Wild Life at the Land's End

Proper noun capitalized: Tinner

Tinner (plural Tinners)

  1. A surname originating as an occupation.

tinner meaning in Urdu

tinner in Urdu

قلعی گر

Forms of tinner

Noun
pluraltinners
Proper noun
pluralTinners

Origin of tinner

From tin + -er.

Occupational surname from tinner.

Words formed from tinner

Questions about tinner

What does tinner mean?
Tinner means a tinsmith.
What is tinner in Urdu?
Tinner in Urdu is قلعی گر. See Tinner meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is tinner?
Tinner can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of tinner?
The plural of tinner is tinners.

Words near tinner in the dictionary

  1. Tinnel
  2. Tinnell
  3. Tinnells
  4. Tinnels
  5. tinnen
  6. tinner
  7. tinner snips
  8. tinner's snips
  9. tinneries
  10. tinners
  11. tinnery

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tinner (page history and authors); Tinner (page history and authors); tinner (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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