 | | Re: Some carts —George Edward Godwin
| | | | (...) 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)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Some carts —Stephen Wroble
| | | | | (...) 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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