tinsmith

[ tin-smith ]

noun

1. a person who makes or repairs tinware or items of other light metals.

tinsmith

/ ˈtɪnˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. a person who works with tin or tin plate

Word History and Origins

Origin of tinsmith¹

First recorded in 1805–15; tin + smith

Example Sentences

After four years in Philadelphia learning his trade, Isaac was an accomplished tinsmith.

From Literature

Now about fifteen years old—too young to be emancipated under Pennsylvania law—Isaac was apprenticed to a tinsmith, a Philadelphia Quaker.

From Literature

And here is love like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk past its gleam in the meal-bin.

From New York Times

"Unlike homemade counterparts or local tinsmith's wares, these tools depicted highly stylized images, often drawn from secular themes or with subject's designed specifically to hang on the Christmas trees."

From Salon

Though he is apprenticed to a tinsmith, he misses his time at school and worries a lot about whether to “follow either the road of metal or the road of books.”

From Los Angeles Times