There is, however, the complication that the small amounts presented may in part have been due to their having sold their ore to the larger dealers, but it is clear that some of the tinners did also carry on farming.
While the economic position of the smallertinners must often have been little, if at all, superior to that of ordinary labourers, their political position was remarkable.
The old tinners told am that they warn't at all surprised, because the levels he worked in were more infested with knackers than any other part of the bal.
Most of the dwellers in the cottages scattered over the hills to the north of Penzance (like the tinners of old) work in the mines and cultivate a few acres 'out of core.
The Stannary Parliament for the tinnerson Dartmoor sat on Crockern Tor till the court was removed to Truro.
The Cornish tinnershad their Stannary Court on Caradon.
In her time the tinners of Cornwall were divided into four portions, named from the principal works of that period.
By all accounts the tinners were in a worse condition than the agricultural labourers.
How hard the work of the poor tinners was, on whom the usurers preyed, we learn from Carew.
Under this historic tree they encountered the band of Tinners from Breage, who soon realised from the rich booty in the hands of the men of Wendron that nothing more was to be done that day in the way of wrecking on the Lizard rocks.
The consequence was that the tinners congregated in considerable numbers; the place became a rendezvous for malcontents, and fresh riots broke out.
The reason was this--the sets had been reworked at a later time by the tinners at Gobbetts, further down the river.
Deep Swincombe has all the appearance of having been much pulled about by tinners since the first furnace was erected.
The remains of the tinners have not been subjected to as full an exploration as they merit, but certain results have nevertheless been reached.
As there have been no mortar-stones found at Deep Swincombe, it is to be presumed that the tinners disregarded their slags.
As he rode he called warnings to the herdsmen and tinnerswho already had heard the far roar of waters and were fleeing to the hills.
He kept the interests of the tinners always in mind.
If they had their way, as according to the letter of the law only they should, countless tinners would be thrown out of work.
All through the time when he was engaged in great things at Court, or in great dreams of an Eldorado in South America, he always paid proper attention to the exacting little business of these tinners in Cornwall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tinners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
