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▪ I. tinkler1 Sc. and dial.|ˈtɪŋklə(r)|
[app. f. tinker, with different suffix: cf. pedder, peddler, pedlar.]
A tinker, or worker in metal; in Scotland, north of England, and Ireland, usually a gipsy, or other itinerant mender of pots, pans, and metal-work.
c1175Carta Willelmi Regis in Liber Ecclesie de Scon (1843) 30 [Terra] que iacet inter terram serlon incisoris et terram Jacobi tinkler. 1484Nottingham Rec. II. 346 Christoferus Tynkeler,..tynkeler. 1570Levins Manip. 77/12 A Tinkler, [sartor ærarius]. 1572Satir. Poems Reform. xxxii. 49 We Tinklaris, Tailȝeouris... We wait of nocht bot mekill cair and cummer. 1605N. Riding Rec. (1884) I. 3 Joh. Jackson, tinkler. 1681O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1881) II. 228 Her mother brought a panne to a tinkler's house. 1785Burns Jolly Beggars Air vi, My bonnie lass, I work in brass, A tinkler is my station. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xlix, This fellow had been originally a tinkler, or ‘caird’, many of whom stroll about these districts. 1825Brockett N.C. Words s.v., The celebrated Wull Allen was for many years the king of the tinklers in the North. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xviii, She looks such a tinkler. 191119th Cent. Sept. 546 These wandering cairds or ‘tinklers’ had four separate languages at their command.
attrib.1786Burns Twa Dogs 18 Ev'n wi' a tinkler-gipsey's messan. 1787― ‘When Guilford good’ v, An' Charlie Fox threw by his box, An' lows'd his tinkler jaw, man.
▪ II. ˈtinkler2
[f. tinkle v.1 + -er1.]
That which tinkles; esp. a descriptive name for a small bell, etc. (in slang = ‘bell’); in quot. 1600, a name for some base coin.
1600Stirling Kirk Sess. Reg. (Bann. Cl.) 133 Ane great part of the almus gevin to the Pure is fals cunȝie callit Tinklaris. 1767A. Seward Let. in Poet. Wks. (1810) I. 195 A Spinnet.., the little tinkler is a wretched substitute for my dear harpsichord. 1787Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ode upon Ode Wks. 1812 I. 419 Thus when the Oxford Bell, baptized Great Tom, Shakes all the city with his iron tongue, The little Tinklers might as well be dumb. 1838Dickens O. Twist xxv, ‘Hark!’ cried the Dodger at this moment, ‘I heard the tinkler’. 1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour iii, Giving the little tinkler of a bell a pull as he spoke. 1901R. Anderson Hist. Kilsyth vii. 65 The old ‘tinkler’ which..had done service in the belfry of the disused church.
b. A person who tinkles; a rimester.
1731A. Hill Adv. Poets xxii, But, ah! far short th' unsolid Tinklers rise; Nor soar, but flutter, in the Muse's Skies. |