Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shop or establishment where tinware is made and repaired.
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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The question was asked by a youth in the tin-shop.
The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill
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I turned to the trainer before I went to my room over the tin-shop.
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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I turned to the trainer before I went to my room over the tin-shop.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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"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
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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.
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