: a worker who makes or repairs things of sheet metal (such as tinplate)

Examples of tinsmith in a Sentence

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The museum offers tours of several buildings featuring historical artifacts from the early 1700s to early 1900s and access to knowledgeable artisans, including blacksmiths, tinsmiths, quilters and weavers. Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2024 And at various times over a century and a half, those who lived there also shared some of the space with a spiritualist temple, a tinsmith’s shop and now an artist’s gallery. Robert Higgs, cleveland, 5 Dec. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1812, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of tinsmith was in 1812

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“Tinsmith.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinsmith. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.

Kids Definition

: a worker in tin or sometimes other metals
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