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Re: Some carts
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lugnet.castle
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Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:54:26 GMT
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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 (...) (21 years ago, 21-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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| Hello! ....just two carts. This (URL) me, I'm a link!>> is the cart of a tinkerer. This (URL) me, I'm a link, too!>> is the hay wagon that already carried the harvested grain to the mill. That's been a 19th-century-gallery, therefore a more "modern" (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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