Tinker [verb]

Definition of Tinker:

fiddle with

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Sentence/Example of Tinker:

He can tinker up almost anything, and that eliminates the blacksmith.

He did not go down to the Lake this day, lest he should come near the tinker.

So all turned their steps to the forest depths, where the Tinker was to live henceforth.

The Tinker said nothing at first but stood looking at Robin with a grim face.

"But nought have I to pay thee with, good fellow," quoth the Tinker.

"Nay," quoth the Tinker, shaking his head slowly from side to side.

"That will I not do, even to mine own brother," answered the Tinker.

"Then, prythee, let us hear how he hath taught thee," quoth the Tinker.

He returned at the end of the year to his tinker's work at Elstow, much as he had left it.

While Sutter looked on with apprehensive eyes, he began to tinker with the wiring.