| 单词 | tinker-tool |
| 释义 | > as lemmastinker-tool C1. General use as a modifier, and with other nouns with the sense ‘that is a tinker’, as in tinker-preacher, tinker-tool, etc. ΚΠ 1603 J. Willoughbie Mnemosynon Kyrio-euchariston 103 Yet these Tinker-budghets come in and say, that Christ did, sitting at his last supper, even before his Passion, consecrate and offer himselfe vp a sacrifice, which must then be twise. 1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye I. xix. 243 Tinker-tools. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 8/1 Bedford..so intimately associated with the tinker-preacher's life and work. 1982 Colorado Springs Gaz. Tel. 11 Dec. d44 A realistic drama exposes a taut racial triangle as whites, blacks and Irish tinker gypsies collide on a path destined to end in violence. 2016 T. Trent Tinker King 41 I knock at the boiler with my wrench, thinking of the old Tinker songs my uncles would sing outside the train cars as they worked on fixing anything from leather harnesses to small engines. < as lemmas |
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