1) Dabble 2) Interfere 3) Mender
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1) Experiment with machine parts 2) Experimenter 3) Exclusively Anglo word 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Fiddle 6) Fix unskillfully 7) Futz around 8) Itinerant pot-mender 9) Mender of pots and pans 10) Repair clumsily 11) Repairman of a kind 12) Tinkerer 13) To work as a tinker 14) Try to fix or mend
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- someone who is employed to repair broken things
- small mackerel found nearly worldwide
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one who repairs pots and pans
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A tinker was originally an itinerant tinsmith, who mended household utensils. The word is attested from the 13th century as `tyckner` or `tinkler` a term used in medieval Scotland and England for a metal worker. Some travelling groups and Gypsies adopted this lifestyle and the name was particularly associated with indigenous Irish and Scottish...
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[software] Tinker is a computer software application for molecular dynamics simulation with a complete and general package for molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics, with some special features for biopolymers. The heart of the Tinker package is a modular set of callable routines which allow the manipulation of coordinates and evaluatio...
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itinerant metal worker; mender of kettles and pans, so-called because of the tinking sound, from Middle English tinken,
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• (n.) A small mortar on the end of a staff. • (n.) A young mackerel about two years old. • (n.) The chub mackerel. • (n.) One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work. • (v. i.) To busy one`s self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works. • (n.) The silver...
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Those who fix brass and other metal items.
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Tinker is the nickname of a young Tyrannosaurus rex meaning tyrant lizard king) that was found near Belle Fourche, South Dakota, USA (in the Hell Creek Formation of western S.D.). Tinker's roughly 70%-complete fossilized skeleton dates from about 70 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period . This theropod (carnivorous dinosaur) was abou...
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1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. 'Tailors and tinkers.' ... 2. One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work. ... 3. A small mortar on the end of a staff. ... 4. <zoology> A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. ... The silversides. ... A skate. ... 5. <zoology> The razor-billed auk. ... Ori...
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itinerant metal worker; mender of kettles and pans, so-called because of the tinking sound, from Middle English tinken,
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Tink'er intransitive verb To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.
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Tink'er transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Tinkered ;
present participle & verbal noun Tinkering .] To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.
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Tink'er noun [ From Tink , because the tinker's way of proclaiming his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a tinkling noise. Johnson .] 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware. 'Tailors and tinkers .' Piers Plowman.
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A tinker is a person who mends things, the term especially applies to someone who mends pots, pans and kettles. In Scotland and Northern Ireland the term is often applied to Romanys.
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Tinker is a British slang term of endearment.
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n] - a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts 2. [n] - (British) an itinerant Gypsy 3. [v] - work as a tinker or tinkerer
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