tinker
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1. tinker - Noun
2. tinker - Verb
3. Tinker - Proper noun
Meaning
The silversides.
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.
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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I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Why am I taking seduction advice from a man whose idea of foreplay is to slam coins on the table and shout: 'Who wants to ride the big horse?'""Because he knows best, Tinker.
Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse.
I am a very bottom-up thinker. If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building. I can sit there and see primitives and recognize their power to build structures a half mile high, if only I had just one more to make it functionally complete. I can see those kinds of things.
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
Don't throw out the old pot until you have the tinker makes a new one.