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tin·ner

 (tĭn′ər)
n.
1. A tin miner.
2. One that makes or deals in tinware; a tinsmith.
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tinner

(ˈtɪnə)
n
1. (Mining & Quarrying) a tin miner
2. (Crafts) a worker in tin; tinsmith
3. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a person or organization that puts food, etc, into tins; canner
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Noun1.tinner - someone who makes or repairs tinware
smith - someone who works at something specified
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You grow confused between that which you read thirty-odd years ago, and that which someone told you, like the Keystone Kops-type tale of the poets and artists returning from the Gurnard's Head Hotel or the Tinners Arms in a tractor, so drunk (the poets and artists, that is, not the tractor), that they kept falling out, but because it was in a rut in a field, the tractor just kept going with or without them.
The following morning, we drove west along the wild and windswept coast road to the former mining hamlet of Zennor for an extremely muddy but exhilarating up and down coast path trek to Gurnards Head and back, followed by battered squid and mackerel pate in the cosy Tinners Arms.
(24) For example, in the tin mines of Cornwall, the right to work was given to all "free tinners" so long as a portion of all minerals extracted were transferred back to the owner, usually about one-fifteenth of the product.25 Mining lead in the mines of Derbyshire was made contingent on returning one-thirteenth of the minerals extracted to the crown or the land's lessee.
The Village blacksmiths will make a vintage-style apple peeling machine; the coopers will craft an apple barrel; the "tinners'' will make an old-fashioned apple picker, and in the Village's households, historians will demonstrate how apples were used and stored in root cellars.
There are also tip tinners. These tip tinners are comprised of small solder particles, similar to solder paste, and other "magic" ingredients.
Anyone heading to Lelant can take the scenic way back on the branch railway, while those attempting the more energetic hike to Zennor will need to recover in the hamlet's only pub - 13th Century Tinners Arms.
Tavistock and Abingdon Abbey produced barely three books altogether between 1526 and 1534: Vie Book of Comfort and The Confirmation of the Tinners' Charter at Tavistock and a breviary according to local usage at Abingdon.
The case began in the 1990s, when the Tinners started working with the global nuclear smuggling network of Khan- who is know as the 'Father of the Pakistani atom bomb', who supplied Libya with nuclear weapons technology.
The US had lobbied Switzerland not to indict the Tinners and to destroy sensitive evidence.
Chase's Recipes; or, Information for Everybody." True to its ambitious name, the book provided practical recipes for all of the previously mentioned tradespeople plus tanners, shoe makers, harness makers, painters, jewelers, blacksmiths, tinners, gunsmiths, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovators, and farmers.