tink1 (tingk)

i. [ A helmeted figure... alighted... on the floor amidst a shower of splinters and tinking gla . C. Reade , Hard Cash, xliii. tink1 (tingk), n. [ tink1 , v.] A tinking or tinkling sound. How it chimes, and cries tink in the close, divinely! B. Jonson, Epicæne, ii. 2. tink2+ (tingk), v. t. [ tinkal, n. tinker (ting'kėr), v. [ sed tinned (tind), p. a. 1. Covered, overlaid, or temporarily, or as an unskilled workman: used in allusion to the imperfect and makeshift character of ordinary work in metals: often with up, to patch up. The Victorian Act has been already tinkered several times, and is not likely to last long in its present form. Sir C. W. Dilke , Probs. of Greater Britain, vi. 6. II. in trans. 1. To do the work of a tinker upon metal or the like.-2. To work generally in an experimental or botchy way; oссиру one's self with a thing carele ly or in a meddlesome way: as, to tinker with the tariff. I will step round at once and offer my services, before other folks begin to tinker with him. R. B. Kimball , Was he Succe ful? ii. 7. IMG:content-0463.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Packed or preserved in hermetically sealed tins; canned: as, tinned milk; tinned meats. We were obliged to lay in a stock of tinned provisions. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 467. Tinned sheet-iron, tin-plate. - Tinned ware, metalware protected by tinning: applied especially to early and decorative work as distinguished from tinware. tinnent (tin'en), a. [ Thy Tinnen Chariot shod with burning bo es. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 4. tinkerly (ting'ker-li), a. [ tinker, or a tinker's work. Fie! whipping-post, tinkerly stuff! Shirley, Love Tricks, ii. 1. The common works in a tin-mine or tin-works. All tinners and labourers in and about the stannaries shall, during the time of their working therein bona fide, be privileged from suits of other courts. Black stone, Com., III. vi.