Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shop or establishment where tinware is made and repaired.

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Examples

  • We find that as every year we put into a Southern community colored men who can start a brick-yard, a sawmill, a tin-shop, or a printing-office, — men who produce something that makes the white man partly dependent upon the negro, instead of all the dependence being on the other side, — a change takes place in the relations of the races.

    Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

  • We find that as every year we put into a Southern community colored men who can start a brick-yard, a sawmill, a tin-shop, or a printing-office, — men who produce something that makes the white man partly dependent upon the negro, instead of all the dependence being on the other side, — a change takes place in the relations of the races.

    Civil Rights & Black Identity 2006

  • We find that as every year we put into a Southern community colored men who can start a brick-yard, a sawmill, a tin-shop, or a printing-office, -- men who produce something that makes the white man partly dependent upon the negro, instead of all the dependence being on the other side, -- a change takes place in the relations of the races.

    The Awakening of the Negro 1969

  • But the rattle and banging of the automobile, like nothing so much as a tin-shop with a full crew working at high speed, urged the horses on and on.

    The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

  • Here there was an addition to a tin-shop underneath, and he dropped down and found himself within twelve feet of a narrow alleyway.

    The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

  • The question was asked by a youth in the tin-shop.

    The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

  • I turned to the trainer before I went to my room over the tin-shop.

    Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922

  • I turned to the trainer before I went to my room over the tin-shop.

    Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921

  • "Old Hen" worked in a tin-shop, read Ruskin, regarded Debs as a prophet, received many papers devoted to socialism and the New Thought, and believed that he believed in no man, no God and no devil.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

  • We find that as every year we put into a Southern community colored men who can start a brick-yard, a sawmill, a tin-shop, or a printing-office, -- men who produce something that makes the white man partly dependent upon the negro, instead of all the dependence being on the other side, -- a change takes place in the relations of the races.

    The Awakening of the Negro 1896

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