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Re: Some carts
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lugnet.castle
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Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:59:36 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, George Edward Godwin wrote:
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In lugnet.castle, Johannes Koehler wrote:
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... the cart of a tinkerer.
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Not to be pedantic but the correct term for this sort of merchant is simply
“tinker”. A tinkerer is someone who plays around with mechanical things in
his workshop.
Just FYI. :)
Ted
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A tinker gets his name because he works so much with tin, the way a plumber
works with lead (Latin plumbum = lead). Tinkers usually made and repaired pots,
pans, and other small metal objects which were made from nonferrous metals and
required a smaller fire.
By the way, a tinkers dam is a temporary plug made of clay used to keep the hot
metal from running. It would harden while the tinker was working and be broken
off with a hammer when he was done. That’s why a tinker’s dam isn’t worth
anything. (It’s usually mispelled as “tinker’s damn”.)
Stephen
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 | | Re: Some carts
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| (...) Not to be pedantic but the correct term for this sort of merchant is simply "tinker". A tinkerer is someone who plays around with mechanical things in his workshop. Just FYI. :) Ted (21 years ago, 19-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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