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Definition of Tinman
1. n. A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.
Definition of Tinman
1. Noun. A maker of tinware. ¹
2. Noun. A dealer in tinware. ¹
3. Noun. (genetics) A master gene in the fruit fly ''Drosophila melanogaster'', whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tinman
1. a tinsmith [n TINMEN] - See also: tinsmith
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinman
Literary usage of Tinman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1903)
"In the twinkling of an eye, the Flaming tinman, disengaging himself of his ...
The Flaming tinman made no reply, but planting his knee on my breast, ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"... on ticket-of-leave from the prison-house of respectability, and is quite
unequal to a personal conflict with ' blazing Bosville'—the flaming tinman. ..."
3. A Book of Prose Narratives by Chauncey Wetmore Wells (1914)
"GEORGE BORROW 1803-1881 THE FLAMING tinman [From Lavengro, the Scholar, the Gypsy,
and the Priest (1851), an autobiography partly fictitious. ..."
4. Lavengro; the scholar, the gypsy, the priest by George Henry Borrow (1872)
"The Flaming tinman made no reply, but planting hie knee on my breast, seized my
throat with two huge horny hands. I gave myself up for dead, and probably ..."
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