Of this he boasts as a great change for the better, inasmuch as previously the tinner had received but half that amount.
From a speech of Sir Walter Raleigh in Parliament in 1601, when Lord Warden of the Stannaries, it would appear that the pay of a workingtinner was then four shillings per week, finding himself.
A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil.
As poor as a tinner" was a proverbial expression in Cornwall, and "a tinner is never broke till his back is broke.
The tinner was a free man and could not be subjected to the system of villeinage.
Abraham the tinner in 1357 was actually employing three hundred persons on his works.
But the tinner happened to come along, and he made me a new head out of tin.
Once more the tinner 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 art-firm and Barrow were present at the wedding, and the tinner and Puss had been invited, but the tinner was ill and Puss was nursing him--for they were engaged.
Valentine looked through the window and saw that it was the journeymantinner unloading.
If convenient, have thetinner cut each sheet into eleven strips twenty feet long and about one and a quarter wide.
An awl-point arrow is made by inserting the point in the end of the arrow, wrapping with copper wire, and getting a tinner to drop some solder at the end to fasten the wire and awl-point firmly together.
The old tinner was now mounted on his favourite hobby, and as his stories about smuggling were interminable, I wished him good-night.
Pretty steadfast; he and his sons had neighbours' fare," the oldtinner replied.
You Treen men go about your business, and thank your luck that this tinner is as wise as a St. Levan witch to get 'e out of the hobble.
Not long since a tinner of Lelant dreamt, three nights following, that a crock of gold was buried in a particular spot, between large rocks within the castle, on Trecroben hill.
Neither the master nor the shop assistants saw anything to laugh at when the tinner had told his simple story.
Just above the bottom of the pan on one side he had a tinner cut eight or ten small holes, like a collander.
He first had a tinner make heavy tin boxes of a size convenient to handle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
