Definition of Tinker

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Tinker

A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other metal ware.

One skilled in a variety of small mechanical work.

A small mortar on the end of a staff.

A young mackerel about two years old.

The chub mackerel.

The silversides.

A skate.

The razor-billed auk.

To mend or solder, as metal wares; hence, more generally, to mend.

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

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Tinker Quotations

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford

They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery.
David R. Brower

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
John Barton

I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong.
Elvis Costello

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.
Charles de Lint

It's very easy to make insects move. Because they do move mechanically without the rippling of flesh as you mentioned. They move more like real tinker toys and you can make models of them quite easily.
Michael O'Donoghue

And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.
DeForest Soaries

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
George Ryan

Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.
Manmohan Singh

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Arthur Bloch

Tinker Translations

tinker in French is bricolons, bricolez, bricoler, bricolent
tinker in German is basteln, flicken
tinker in Swedish is kittelflickare, fuskare

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