Crossword-Solution: TINKER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tinker | n. | A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. |
| Tinker | n. | One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work. |
| Tinker | n. | A small mortar on the end of a staff. |
| Tinker | n. | A young mackerel about two years old. |
| Tinker | n. | The chub mackerel. |
| Tinker | n. | The silversides. |
| Tinker | n. | A skate. |
| Tinker | n. | The razor-billed auk. |
| Tinker | v. t. | To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend. |
| Tinker | v. i. | To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TINKER | anagram | REKNIT |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RETEA
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Sentences with TINKER (5)
You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.” Really, he thought they had now talked enough about fairies, and it struck him that Tinker Bell was keeping very quiet.
Hackers' delight in techno-toys also tends to draw them towards hobbies with nifty complicated equipment that they can tinker with.
Are they not exactly like a bald little tinker who has just got out of durance and come into a fortune; he takes a bath and puts on a new coat, and is decked out as a bridegroom going to marry his master's daughter, who is left poor and desolate? A most exact parallel.
Why, I had a partner in this thing once, along back just after the war, and he used to be always wanting to tinker with something else.
The most embittered citizen of Detroit will never perish by his own hand while he has an automobile to tinker.
Quotes with TINKER (3)
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’ ‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember. ‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’ I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
I am sitting under a sycamore by Tinker Creek. I am really here, alive on the intricate earth under trees. But under me, directly under the weight of my body on the grass, are other creatures, just as real, for whom also this moment, this tree, is “it”… in the top inch of soil, biologists found “an average of 1,356 living creatures in each square foot… I might as well include these creatures in this moment, as best as I can. My ignoring them won’t strip them of their reality,…
-You're pretty hard-boiled, Tinker Bell.-Call me that name again and you'll be wondering how your bollocks wound up lodged in your windpipe--from below. Just because we don't get to your side of things much anymore doesn't mean we don't know anything. 'If you believe in fairies, clap your hands!' If you believe in fairies, kiss my rosy pink arse is more like it. Now are you going to shut your gob or not?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT, Three Across, Universal, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).