Tinker

·noun The chub mackerel.

II. Tinker ·noun The razor-billed auk.

III. Tinker ·noun A Skate.

IV. Tinker ·noun A small mortar on the end of a staff.

V. Tinker ·noun A young mackerel about two years old.

VI. Tinker ·noun The Silversides.

VII. Tinker ·noun One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

VIII. Tinker ·noun A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.

IX. Tinker ·vt To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.

X. Tinker ·vi To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, ·etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works.