Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An itinerant tinker.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A traveling tinker; a tramp; a vagrant; a gipsy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A traveling tinker; also a tramp or sturdy beggar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A travelling
tinker ; atramp , orsturdy beggar .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Please make you feelings know by adding your name to the petition at petitions.number10.gov.uk/caird-library/.
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The situation is very far from resolved, and there is an online petition to the Prime Minister available to sign at petitions.number10.gov.uk/caird-library/.
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More might have passed, but Lady Staunton stepped between them with her purse in her hand, and taking out a guinea, of which it contained several, visible through the net-work, as well as some silver in the opposite end, offered it to the caird.
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For a lang caird tongue she's the worst that I ken
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It's aboot a mannie Kemp, he's a caird tongued fang
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"Step in, sir, caird or gentleman," said my father -- looking more bent at the shoulder than twelve years before.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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Only think of the beautiful Lady Cassilis who eloped with a belted knight, being reduced to the level of a hedge-tramper, and interchanging caresses with a caird!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 Various
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Our system would ha 'caird us thru in any Bible cent'ry,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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"The fellow had been originally a tinker or caird."
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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"Faith, lads, we'll get a decent drinking, caird-playin 'minister in young Calmsough -- yin that's no' feared o 'a guid braid oath!" cried
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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