Tinker is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TINKER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to repair shoddily
• attempt to repair or improve something in a casual or desultory way
• To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.
• To busy one\'s self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.
• do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
• work as a tinker or tinkerer
• try to fix or mend
• fiddle with (an engine etc) in an attempt to repair it
NOUN:
• (especially in former times) a person who makes a living by travelling from place to place mending pans and other metal utensils.
• a Gypsy or other person living in an itinerant community.
• a mischievous child
• an act of attempting to repair something.
• A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.
• One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.
• A small mortar on the end of a staff.
• A young mackerel about two years old.
• The chub mackerel.
• The silversides.
• A skate.
• The razor-billed auk.
• a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts
• formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living
• small mackerel found nearly worldwide
• (formerly) travelling mender of pots and pans
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to repair in an unskilled or experimental manner
• derogatory term for travelling mender of pots and pans

Words related to TINKER

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Words that contain TINKER

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How to use TINKER in a sentence

• Then the Tinker spat upon his hands and, grasping his staff, came straight at the other.
• At a charity hospital they tried to mend my breaks and tinker up my anatomy.
• Bunyan was of poor parentage, his father being a tinker.
• They had long ago sworn an armistice, and, in his way, Tinker took a great deal of notice of Peter.
• The two dogs directly behind Tinker had traces of equal length, but somewhat shorter, the pair behind them still shorter, and so on to the last pair.
• Perhaps that night it had been the last volume to be tossed aside before turning out the light, for as I slept, to use the words of the tinker of Bedford, I dreamed a dream.
• A member of it may be a tramp and a beggar, the proprietor of some valuable travelling show, a horse-dealer, or a tinker.
• Sundown stepped past him and began to tinker with the gas-engine.
• From the end of the garden of the Refuge, Tinker scanned the country round with dissatisfied eyes.
• Tinker saluted, walked up to within ten yards, and waved his hat at him.
• Tinker was soon aware of the painful fact, and knew that retribution was on him.
• Tinker had shown him his mettle, and he began to have confidence.
• Tinker set his teeth, jammed the flying-machine into the teeth of the wind, switched down the planes, and tried to drive her down.
• A few mornings later Sir Tancred, Tinker, and Lord Crosland were sitting in the gardens of the Temple of Fortune, and on a bench hard by sat Claire and Courtnay.
• Tinker, keeping the bag as low as he could, slipped through the group.
• Thereupon, after a brief but serious conference with the manager, Tinker departed, again followed by a waiter with a tray.
• Then Elsie grew drowsy, very drowsy, indeed, and presently, nestled against Tinker, she fell asleep.
• Lord Crosland, however, so far forgot the proper dignity of a peer as to kick Tinker gently under the table.
• When he found that Tinker had them at his finger ends, he was filled with admiration and respect.
• Tinker strolled along to the Cafe du Printemps, and found his father sitting before it on the usual uncomfortable little chair before the usual white-topped table.
• But the tinker trudged off home with his pack and his new purchase.
• There came flitting in through the window with him his fairy, whose name was Tinker Bell.
• The rigid tongue we see is effect, and to tinker with the effect while the cause remains is unnecessarily stupid.
• He would tinker happily with this, driving a nail, adjusting a screw.
• Ivan and Nikol remained behind and watched Hal tinker with the engine.
• The son of a tinker, his childhood and early manhood were idle and vicious.
• Pulling it out of the pot, she ran with it to her door, and gave it to a tinker who was passing.

Similar words containing TINK without suffix er

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