tinner

See also: Tinner

English

Etymology

From tin +‎ -er.

Noun

tinner (plural tinners)

  1. A tinsmith.
  2. A worker in a tin mine.
  3. (Cornwall) The pied wagtail.
    • 2022, John Coulson Tregarthen, Wild Life at the Land's End:
      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.

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