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Definition of Tintacks
1. tintack [n] - See also: tintack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tintacks
Literary usage of Tintacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Household Book of Poetry by Charles Anderson Dana (1882)
"... as it were, with stammering — More fault of those who had the hammering Of
prosody into me, and syntax, And did it, not with hobnails but tintacks! ..."
2. A History of Agriculture and Prices in England: From the Year After the by James Edwin Thorold Rogers, Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1882)
"... two at a later period from the Sion accounts appear to be our modern tintacks,
for they cost only yd. a thousand, while of other tinned nails, ..."
3. The Road in Tuscany: A Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1904)
"... business of tintacks, tinsel, and turkey-red tassels that ever I saw. I like
better the Piedmont custom, which you may see in the Alpine villages ..."
4. The Road in Tuscany: A Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1904)
"... business of tintacks, tinsel, and turkey-red tassels that ever I saw. I like
better the Piedmont custom, which you may see ..."
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