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tinker


1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. "Tailors and tinkers."

2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

3. A small mortar on the end of a staff.

4. <zoology> A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel.

The silversides.

A skate.

5. <zoology> The razor-billed auk.

Origin: From Tink, because the tinker's way of proclaiming his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a tinkling noise. Johnson.

Source: Websters Dictionary